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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:05:36 +0200
From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Alex,

> A frequently-cited weakness in the academic area is that there are not
> a lot
> of people developing packages for Ada that students can use to achieve
> a
> high level of functionality for a low cost (in time) of learning.
> Students
> tend to be able to do much more advanced (graphics, networking, etc.)
> projects more quickly with languages that have more libraries and
> community
> support than Ada currently offers.

This is the exact opposite of what a professor reported here on
comp.lang.ada some time ago. Despites that Java offers lot of libraries
not a single student was able to finish properly the yearly project
where Ada student used to almost all finish the project.

Pascal.

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