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,cec04f9d45b3f527 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-29 05:33:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F4F4817.7030306@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada advocacy method References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:33:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.22.252 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1062160419 209.165.22.252 (Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:33:39 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:33:39 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41940 Date: 2003-08-29T12:33:39+00:00 List-Id: 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. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================