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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 11:18:20 -0800
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Zach Swanson wrote:

> Just to throw in my two cents at this point, I'd like to say that the
> DOD hasn't completley "caved in" concerning Ada. I'm a cadet at the
> United States Military Academy and we, the Naval Academy, and the Air
> Force Academy are all taught Ada95 as computer science majors. Our
> instructors point out on a regular basis that the reasoning behind
> this is that Ada is one of the best OO languages available, and that
> it encourages good technique in programming.

Also, Ada continues to be taught at the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, CA, even though it is no longer a required course for
the students.   When the subject of Ada comes up in my conversations
with the students, I am often surprised to learn that those students,
while find Java to be more fun and easier to program, understand
the importance of Ada in building dependable software for
weapon systems.   I wish more of our DoD contractors understood
this as well as these students do.  Oh, and NPS students typically
take at least two quarters of C++, one Quarter of Java. Ada is a
one quarter elective a small number of students take because they
want to not because the must.

Richard Riehle