From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec20777e0d41ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-09 05:37:01 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!204.71.34.15!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 08:36:29 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3A83F25C.CEB50F1D@acm.org> References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.ba.c9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 9 Feb 2001 13:36:52 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (WinNT; I) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5060 Date: 2001-02-09T13:36:52+00:00 List-Id: If the profs who teach Ada would refer their students here and to some of the more useful web sites like Adapower, this would help because they would get exposed to these sorts of uses of Ada. We can always do our part by politely helping out the students when we can. MDC Preben Randhol wrote: > What would be very nice was if a lot of the students who take Ada 95 > courses at the university could see that Ada 95 can also be used to > make cool programs using either GtkAda or SDL or other Toolkits. I > mean that one see that one can make nice GUIs with Ada too and not > only the hyped Java. So that when the students that also codes as a > hobby, goes home they will continue programming in Ada 95 and not > revert to C/C++ or Java. I think Linux and the desktop area of Linux > is a opportunity for Ada to make a "comeback". > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================