Re: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS!

[mab@dst1.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)]

In article <637e34$5u6@sun04.tfh-berlin.de> weberwu@compute.tfh-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:
>Now that's the way to promote a language! We are teaching Ada in
>all three computer-related degree programs as the first language.
>This semester we have more than 160 students beginning their
>studies.
>A colleague discovered that the company CCI in Meppen, Germany would
>send free copies of the Ada Tour 2.0 i (including the Lovelace
>tutorial, a collection of compilers and a pile of documentation)
>to anyone who asked. So we asked, and we promptly found big boxes
>of CDs waiting for us in the departmental offices.
>It was like Christmas, passing the CDs out in class! All those
>faces lit up - they were getting something for nothing! And the
>griping about us teaching a language not used in the Real World (tm)
>disappeared. This is exactly what needs to be done (and done fast)
>to attract young engineers to the language: give them a free taste
>of how good it is. Thanks to CCI for preparing this great CD!

Similarly I would like to publicly thank the nice people at ACM Ada Letters
for shiping out copies of the Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM with the magazine
several months ago.  It has been very useful.

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Mark Biggar
mab@wdl.lmco.com