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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7fb761492573daee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jmartin@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Jay M Martin) Subject: Re: No top schools use Ada Date: 1995/04/18 Message-ID: <3n2beh$eb9@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101107948 references: organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Kevin V. Sobilo > Sorry, but can you substantiate the fact that these are "TOP" schools??? > MIT, obviously has a reputation for RESEARCH, but I don't know of > any strength in Software Engineering which is the center of this > issue. 1 Scheme Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 C Stanford University 1 Scheme University of California, Berkeley 1 C++ Carnegie Mellon University (Corrected) 5 Pascal Cornell 6 Scheme University of Illinois,Urb 7 C University of Washington 8 Pascal University of Texas, Austin 8 Pascal University of Wisconsin, Madison (2/3-term Pascal, 1/3-term C) Top 9 CS departments ranked in last months US News and World Report. >Colin James: >I don't see academics from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, >CalTech, Rice, Monash University (AU), Dartmouth College, or any school >I omit from ignorance which is ACTIVELY engaged here in any fruitful >discussions whatsoever. >Could it be that this news group is either trivial or that those academics >are too busy doing things that matter to even care ? ... >This newgroup is not worthy of any outside respect, and, by in large, >it shows it. By contrast, read other comp.lang newsgroups where the >discussion actually proves something. What comp.* newsgroups has all the MIT/Stanford/CMU/Berkeley professors contributing, I want to go read it!!! Sure comp.lang.C++ has Stroustrup, but he is a "wild and crazy guy" because he is only one of the few eminent Computer Scientists who lowers himself down to actually press the electronic flesh with the masses (and we benefit and are grateful for it!). I just don't see many prominent academics wasting their time with internet news. Heh, posting news and 50 cents will get you a cup of coffee! > too busy doing things that matter to care? Well, more like doing theoretical masturbation, but thats close enough. They got lots of other stuff to do (in order Letterman style ) besides posting in comp.lang.ada: 1000 : Thinking of how Computer Science could actually benefit industry/mankind. ... 6 : Doing Research 5 : Teaching undergrad students 4 : Hand-holding Grad Students 3 : Getting that paper out before the deadline. 2 : Milking those Ol funding sources and managing that money. And the #1 time consumer for professors is!: 1 : Machiavellian departmental politics! Personally, I think this newsgroup (comp.lang.ada) is pretty good. Jay