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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d078d9f535eb4723,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: weberwu@compute.tfh-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) Subject: Ada Germany at the OOP'97 Date: 1997/02/12 Message-ID: <5dslvd$13n@sun04.tfh-berlin.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 218263812 Organization: TFH-Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I spent a day at the OOP'97 in Munich at the Ada stand. Yes, you read right, the special interest group "Ada-Deutschland" of the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI, sort of an ACM in Germany) operated a stand amongst all the other famous OO-companies. Our fearless leader, Peter Dencker, twisted some arms to get us the stand. Okay, we were back by the restrooms, but it was the best spot in the Sheraton for using a handy, so we did have some traffic ;-) It was a lot of "preaching to the converted", but gosh, it was nice to see all those converted people! Volker Oertel (oertel@fh-albsig.de) reports that his college (FH Albstadt-Sigmaringen) is using Ada as a first language and is very happy with it. We had a real-live Ada user there, too! Michael Paus from the Department of Flight Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart had a nice application in flight simulation on display (michael.paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de). Since we were a number of people on the stand we got to sneak out to a lecture. I chose Tucker Taft talking about his AdaMagic. Wonderful, wonderful, what a great idea! I did not get to visit the other lectures, but I heard that they were good, too. After the business meeting we adjorned to the Schneiderweisse Beer Cellar for some of that Munich local color... We have a new Web page at http://www.ada-deutschland.de, set up by Hubert Keller. It's all in German, of course... What do we need? More textbooks in GERMAN like Mike Feldmann's, lots of CD to hand out (it is too much of a barrier to just state the URL of the Ada repositories, many companies in Germany do not have Internet access, but they *do* have CD-ROM readers), more success stories in Germany. We've decided to open up an anonymous "confessional booth" on our home page, so that people can report on things they did wrong and how they learned from them (like not using exceptions to jump out of a deep nest of procedure calls in the hopes of speeding things up...). Coming soon to the homepage! -- Debora Weber-Wulff (Professorin fuer Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen) Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, FB Informatik, Luxemburger Str. 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany email: weberwu@tfh-berlin.de