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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,23c0de5a42cf667e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:36:26 -0500 From: Brian Drummond Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:42:11 +0100 Reply-To: brian@shapes.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <8k1f06t4uc0t319t9v6t3als2ifu5evbku@4ax.com> References: <4j73xhgimt6r$.pu55kne2p2w5$.dlg@40tude.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-yH79oXj6JhYk0LAoFDQfEi+W/Wxl9Ltw/4RZHUPs6Qu3WUwynMYFup7mwwmM2eypXAmYkEZXX/T6MAD!+VJzmmTyaWxb/ThvcFqkiQK0BnXUovVPdbn09tgZs0FZBTxpg9jqnp+YV7WV4nulYborh7uP4Ip6!NGU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11250 Date: 2010-06-03T11:42:11+01:00 List-Id: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:16:14 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote: >Le Thu, 27 May 2010 17:21:57 +0200, (see below) > a �crit: >> My experience is that CS/SE students always focus on "coding" at the >> expense >> of problem analysis, program design, project planning, verification, >> validation, documentation, and anything else they find less congenial. >I always though this was not so much with these students. So why do they >choose it if they are not aware of what it requires ? > >> Beware: My ex-students are some of the people who >> wrote the software you are using today. ;-) >> >You're teacher too like Stefan ? If you learned Pascal, there's a pretty good chance you learned it from his book... http://www.amazon.co.uk/PASCAL-Introduction-Methodical-Programming-Instructions/dp/0273021885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275561327&sr=1-1 - Brian