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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities. References: From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:03:26 +0200 Message-ID: <8765a3auvl.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BSWaMfqglomiUzdpUHF4EUWTvoM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Jun 2004 00:03:18 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.244.72 X-Trace: 1086645798 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 41761 83.134.244.72:37901 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1215 Date: 2004-06-08T00:03:18+02:00 List-Id: "Peter C. Chapin" writes: > You are probably talking about a computer science program, true? VTC > offers computer engineering technology. It's more like computer > engineering which, in turn, is more like electrical engineering than it is > like computer science. Our students get a lot of hardware courses, > including basic (and not so basic) electronics. The programming we are > preparing them for is low level stuff... device drivers, embedded systems, > specialized executives, etc. We tend to be relatively light on abstract > theory and heavy on the "practical" construction of systems. If I suggest > that we reintroduce Ada in the curriculum I know the question will be: > "How much Ada is being used, relative to C, in the application domains we > focus on?" How should I best answer a question like that? At Barco Avionics, it is roughly 85% Ada, 15% C. The C is used for some microcontrollers nor supported by the current Ada compiler, but I suspect there must be a way to use Ada there too. -- Ludovic Brenta.