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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 08:05:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newshub1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au!news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Israel Raj T Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Message-ID: <737rst8ef4vhu8nr1v0l7vqs29f18gdv89@4ax.com> References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q42jo$lu8$1@news1.sunrise.ch> <9q95lm$b4l$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3bca9c74.1660187@news.demon.co.uk> <9qedg903km@drn.newsguy.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:05:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.144.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@optushome.com.au X-Trace: news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au 1003331115 203.164.144.2 (Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:05:15 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:05:15 EST Organization: @Home Network Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14815 Date: 2001-10-17T15:05:15+00:00 List-Id: On 15 Oct 2001 03:24:09 -0700, Robert*@ wrote: >In article <3bca9c74.1660187@news.demon.co.uk>, john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam >>Of course it is - Pascal was designed as a teaching language, Java >>wasn't designed. Most of the better comp.sci courses use a functional ( haskell or ml at Cambridge and Oxford ) or semifunctional ( scheme at mit) as a first language for their undergraduates. However, Stanford ( perhaps the best practical comp.sci dept in the world ) seem to use a mixture of c++ , java and c.