Re: An Ada advocacy method

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

You might also pull together a disk that includes Gnat, GtkAda, GPS, and 
a few other useful things and be ready to hand it off to a student that 
is curious. Give them an instant Ada Programming Environment and they 
might install it on their PC and start having fun.

But then that would start up my usual rant about how there isn't a 
nicely integrated, all-in-one, just-open-the-box-and-use-it Ada 
Programming Kit. You've got all these disjointed pieces all over the 
place that are extremely loosely coupled and it really needs to be a 
whole, integrated package. (uh-oh! I'm foaming at the mouth again!)

MDC


Wes Groleau wrote:
> 
> 
> Sure, but the class _is_ C++, and no amount
> of Ada-awareness is going to get the C++ syntax
> into their heads.  Help them pass the course,
> and maybe someday they'll be able and willing
> to choose something better.
> 


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