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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Preben Randhol" 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. :-( > > -- > Preben Randhol ------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- > �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�