Re: employment with ada

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

DPH wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2003 12:22:19 -0400, "Chad R. Meiners"
> <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>"DPH" <rally2xs@compuserve.com> wrote in message
>>news:4mo7bvc2n70k6eikm3muu2965nbo3m77ov@4ax.com...
>>
>>>1) No college in this country is teaching Ada.  There may be some
>>>qualifiers on that that I don't remember, such as "as a major portion
>>>of their program", or something like that, but in short there isn't a
>>>source of new Ada programmers, nor is there likely to be.
>>
>>Now that just isn't true!  Truman State University's (www.truman.edu)
>>computer science program is taught almost entirely in Ada.  In fact Boeing
>>sends representatives to the university to give job hiring presentations
>>outside of the normal career expo.
> 
> Glad to hear it.
> 
> Any others?
> 
> Someone should tell LM.

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-foundation.html

lists 117 "Colleges and Universities Introducing Ada as the First 
Language Taught in a Computing Curriculum". 56 are not in the US, 
leaving "only" 61 in the US. 33 more (25 in the US) introduce Ada in the 
2nd or 3rd course in the curriculum.

Given this level of FUD on their 1st point, I have to suspect that they 
were rationalizing their prejudices, not examining the evidence and 
reaching a valid conclusion.

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