Re: What to Do?

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <3A5FCCDC.8E6F67F9@chicagonet.net>,
  Petra Lynn Hofman <petrahof@chicagonet.net> wrote:

> I've checked all over the Chicago area and no college or
> tech school offers classes in Ada programming.

Of course colleges are not particularly in the business
of offering classes in xxx programming for any xxx. They
may be in the business of teaching programming using some
language yyy as a tool, but that's a bit different (and
there are indeed colleges and universities around that
use Ada as the yyy for this purpose, but in the long run
that's a secondary issue. After all for many many years,
Pascal was being used as yyy by nearly all universities.

You will actually find VERY few four year colleges or
universities that teach two of the most widely used
programming languages: COBOL and Visual Basic. If we
look back ten years, then COBOL was by far the most widely
used language (I am not sure of its ranking at this stage),
but it was STILL the case that virtually no four year
institutions taught COBOL.

So what is taught at universities does not necessarily
reflect what is in actual use.

Of course it is desirable that people are exposed to Ada
somewhere during their academic career, and that happens
in even more universities, though certainly not enough :-)


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