From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:23:22 -0400
Date: 2011-03-14T09:23:22-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d7e16ca$0$11903$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilihgv$vf0$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On 3/13/2011 9:40 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> It is a matter of finding the correct class or package and using it.
> That is all what is needed. No need to know how it works from inside.
> One can't really fight this trend, it is the new way of doing things.
Of course, this is not a new trend. People who need mathematical
functions do not write their own cosine routine, or even their
own Bessel function routine. They don't write their own linear
algebra packages. Schoolchildren are no longer taught how to
extract square roots using pencil and paper. Because programming
is now taught differently from the way you learned it does not
make the new way bad.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-12 1:33 is Ada still being used for teaching at universities? Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-12 12:01 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-13 13:22 ` John McCormick
2011-03-13 13:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-14 13:23 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2011-03-15 16:00 ` Lucretia
2011-03-15 17:21 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-15 19:16 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-15 19:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-27 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 10:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 12:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 17:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 21:56 ` richard
2011-03-29 7:30 ` stefan-lucks
2011-03-14 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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