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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3be76ca884705a45 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews7.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:23:22 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4d7e16ca$0$11903$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: b863e4db.usenet-news.net X-Trace: DXC=l^BRHoH5jGPOlkk`DQ0V7T^oXGM_6\KVPmX0AG3X_jU_HmdF=PJ[[JXVjKk:Lk^BNQcR12TN^Bg7^\MO_fT^<50ZCF?ITdGj>h[ X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19135 Date: 2011-03-14T09:23:22-04:00 List-Id: 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.