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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/10
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In article <dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
	dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:

>Another thing you could do (it worked for the U.S. Navy!)
>is to realise it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission.
>Write your software in Ada anyway, and then give it to them
>as a completed work! 

 I know a university student who did this in a data structures
 class.  Instead of writing the assignments in C or C++, he 
 did them in Ada.  Turned them in to a surprised professor.

(mind you if i was a manager and you did
>this to me i'ld be inclined to sack you :-).

 He did get a good grade in the class.  The professor was not so
 narrow-minded as to require him to re-do it in C++.  He persuaded
 the professor that the objective of the class was to learn the
 data structures and algorithms, not to use some particular language.

 I suspect most professors would be too myopic to appreciate this. But
 there are a few enlightened souls on some faculties.

 Richard Riehle
 richard@adaworks.com
 http://www.adaworks.com