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> > Because in a safety-critical project it is not the language alone that
> > is responsible for the error-free outcome. The whole point of
> > re-teaching the graduates is to move out of that "inherently
> > error-prone" zone.
>=20
> I remind you that well-known example of a teacher

John McCormick. The example is well-known, so I happen to know it. ;-)

I also happen to tell this story everywhere where I try to promote Ada. But=
 it does not work. Why? ...

>                                QED=20

... Perhaps because it says something about the language choice for the stu=
dent project (short-term and completely decoupled from anything else that t=
he student did or will do later on), but very little about the case of actu=
al projects where all possible parameters are completely different, startin=
g from "it was not us who started it" and finishing with "and what I will d=
o with it after the project ends?".

> And we have no reason to think it was the students that changed.

Those students are now busy writing C++ or Java in the industry. Statistica=
lly, they even like it.
This is exactly the point that you got spot on: the students did not change=
. :-(

--=20
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com