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From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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On Oct 22, 6:33 am, "Larry A Barowski"
<ThisisLarrybarAtEngDotAuburnDotLearninginstitution> wrote:
> "Peter Hermann" <s...@spam.de> wrote in message
>
> news:gdki93$hvc$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de...
>
> > amado.al...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> My bug is the 'j' in "jGRASP" :-(
>
> > grasp has degraded to a java company since before November 2003
>
> We are a university research group, not a company. Our "market" is
> mainly education. If another language comes to dominate education
> (or if someone will fund development for another language), then we
> will change our focus.
>
> But the "j" was added when jGRASP came to be written in Java
> (previously it was C/C++), and before the focus on Java-related
> features.

  We used to use the older GRASP version on Solaris boxes back in the
mid to late 90's with our VADS compilers. It was nice to have a Ada
"visual" editor without resorting to expensive APEX.
The new hires couldn't deal with vi or emacs :)
thanks in retrospect

But I do think adding the "j" to the name was a mistake, most folks
don't care what a program is written in (unless it is too slow). At
the time, it seemed like Ada was being abandoned for the upstart Java.
We never really liked the Java based version, because at the time, it
seemed a little slow.