Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

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I could imagine Ada being popular in electrical engineering departments if
there were a convenient and inexpensive (maybe free?) Ada environment for
playing around with embedded computing. It would have to work "off the
shelf" with readily available hardware so that some prof could build a
class/lab around it & students could afford to play with it on their own. I
am thinking of Dr. McCormick's model railroad class or the Lego robot
discussed here a while ago. If either of these was packaged as "An embedded
programming course in a bag" so that a prof could just pick it up and start
teaching it, this might go a long way toward encouraging Ada as an
educational tool as well as a practical tool for building real-world
systems.

(Does anyone smell commercial possibilities here? :-)

MDC
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrn997li7.193.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:27:16 +0100, Frank wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >Are there Ada courses on NTNU?
>
> Not that I know of. The Computer Science dep uses Java and C++ I think,
> but perhaps the Electronics department use some Ada. Sadly the
> introductory computer courses are now in Fortran and Java. :-(
>
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> Preben Randhol ------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
>                  �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�