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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b5dede40c8d97f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-13 00:55:35 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!csnnews!perez From: perez@oldcolo.com (Carlos Perez) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Marketing Ada Date: 13 Dec 1994 05:35:12 GMT Organization: Old Colorado City Communications (oldcolo.com - login "newuser") Message-ID: <3cjbqg$9bf@news-2.csn.net> References: <3cflgt$h3q@news1.delphi.com> <3cj3pc$efi@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.160.122.1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1994-12-13T05:35:12+00:00 List-Id: Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote: : If anyone in net-land is a systers member, you might ask that : group to describe their perceptions of Ada, as a teaching language, : and in general. The results would, I think, be very interesting. I would like to add, does the fact that the language is named after the first programmer, a woman, send any particular positive (or negative) message to female programmers? Don't flame me, I'm just curious... -- -- Carlos Perez "My other car is Ada" -- perez@oldcolo.com -- team Ada (Ada95: object-oriented, multi-threaded, totally-cool)