Re: Problem using Ada.Text_IO.Modular_IO

[John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>]

On Jul 11, 5:05 am, christoph.gr...@eurocopter.com wrote:
> > I recall a c.l.ada message from a university teacher of embedded
> > systems programming (model trains, I think) whose classes had
> > switched from C to Ada. After that, the students had achieved more
> > and got better results. The effect was attributed to Ada's
> > fundamental type system and types defined in terms of the
> > (abstracted) problem domain.  I.e., not just Interfaces.
>
> John W. McCormick
> Software Engineering Education: On the Right Track
>
> (On Crosstalk Aug 2000)
>
> Most impressive paper.

Thanks for the compliment.  Georg is correct about my attributing
student success to types defined in terms of the problem domain.  Here
is a link to the Crosstalk paper

http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/08/mccormick.html


I discussed this work on an education panel held at Ada Europe last
month.  I also showed a 13 minute video of the work done by my
students.  A streaming version of that video is available on my lab
page

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~mccormic/RealTime/

John