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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d6589e7b2c60444 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-03 13:30:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EB426DA.6010905@spam.com> From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: employment with ada References: <626e8ae.0305011636.5e899da3@posting.google.com> <4mo7bvc2n70k6eikm3muu2965nbo3m77ov@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 20:30:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.32.58 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1051993848 63.184.32.58 (Sat, 03 May 2003 13:30:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:30:48 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36920 Date: 2003-05-03T20:30:48+00:00 List-Id: DPH wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2003 12:22:19 -0400, "Chad R. Meiners" > wrote: > >>"DPH" 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. -- Jeff Carter "All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside, so we can check." Bananas