From: lbarowski@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-10-28T04:31:31-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9771e559-2ce5-4339-a73b-c1bb5720612f@k7g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7e002aa1-59cb-438b-af58-9227a4ecf7b6@i18g2000prf.googlegroups.com
On Oct 25, 3:36 pm, Marco <prenom_no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But I do think adding the "j" to the name was a mistake, most folks
> don't care what a program is written in (unless it is too slow).
Since Java did take off, especially for education, the "j"
probably did us more good than harm.
> At the time, it seemed like Ada was being abandoned for the
> upstart Java. We never really liked the Java based version,
> because at the time, it seemed a little slow.
It was slow at first, but we had confidence in Moore's Law.
Having a more-or-less single codebase with only two installer
builds has saved us tons of development and testing time in
the long run.
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2008-10-09 16:06 Ada for 1st year students amado.alves
2008-10-09 16:44 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-10-09 17:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-09 18:30 ` amado.alves
2008-11-01 12:13 ` Mike H
2008-10-09 18:25 ` amado.alves
2008-10-09 19:09 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-10-09 19:37 ` amado.alves
2008-10-09 16:47 ` mockturtle
2008-10-09 17:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-10-09 19:36 ` Simon Wright
2008-10-14 4:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-10-14 10:58 ` amado.alves
2008-10-09 17:27 ` Robert A Duff
2008-10-09 18:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-09 19:36 ` amado.alves
2008-10-09 19:42 ` amado.alves
2008-10-09 20:05 ` ahab
2008-10-09 21:01 ` Pascal Obry
2008-10-09 21:13 ` Ed Falis
2008-10-09 23:14 ` amado.alves
2008-10-10 0:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
[not found] ` <D9OdnXWk_MQQOXPVnZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>
2008-10-10 9:54 ` amado.alves
2008-10-10 17:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-15 10:40 ` amado.alves
2008-10-15 11:00 ` christoph.grein
2008-10-15 11:14 ` amado.alves
2008-10-15 11:50 ` christoph.grein
2008-10-15 17:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-15 22:30 ` amado.alves
2008-10-16 7:45 ` christoph.grein
2008-10-16 9:12 ` amado.alves
2008-10-16 10:15 ` christoph.grein
2008-10-16 11:17 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-10-16 11:35 ` amado.alves
2008-10-16 19:24 ` sjw
2008-10-17 12:00 ` amado.alves
2008-10-16 16:26 ` Pascal Obry
2008-10-16 18:15 ` amado.alves
2008-10-16 19:14 ` sjw
2008-10-17 11:59 ` amado.alves
2008-10-16 9:42 ` Common Configuration Settings (was: Ada for 1st year students) Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-16 10:24 ` christoph.grein
2008-10-16 11:20 ` Common Configuration Settings Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-16 11:37 ` amado.alves
2008-10-15 13:57 ` Ada for 1st year students Pascal Obry
2008-10-15 15:20 ` amado.alves
2008-10-15 12:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-15 15:34 ` amado.alves
2008-10-25 19:06 ` Marco
2008-10-15 11:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-10-15 15:19 ` amado.alves
2008-10-10 0:09 ` Gene
2008-10-10 1:15 ` Jeffrey Creem
2008-10-10 10:04 ` amado.alves
2008-10-11 0:15 ` Jeffrey Creem
2008-10-11 13:46 ` amado.alves
2008-10-11 14:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-11 20:43 ` amado.alves
2008-10-11 20:57 ` amado.alves
2008-10-11 23:37 ` Mike H
2008-10-12 1:06 ` (see below)
[not found] ` <LIydnQ3Px5JC1WzVnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
2008-10-12 1:37 ` Gary Scott
2008-11-01 12:09 ` Mike H
2008-10-11 12:54 ` John McCormick
2008-10-11 13:35 ` amado.alves
2008-10-13 23:17 ` Gene
2008-10-11 14:08 ` amado.alves
2008-10-13 12:51 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 20:07 ` amado.alves
2008-10-14 11:56 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-11 14:12 ` amado.alves
2008-10-11 16:20 ` (see below)
2008-10-12 13:00 ` John McCormick
2008-10-12 14:53 ` amado.alves
2008-10-12 15:31 ` Gary Scott
2008-10-12 16:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-13 13:06 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 15:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-13 16:01 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-14 14:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-13 20:13 ` amado.alves
2008-10-12 14:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-13 13:10 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 14:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-13 14:26 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 14:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-14 12:03 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-14 12:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-13 15:52 ` John McCormick
2008-10-11 17:44 ` Simon Wright
2008-10-13 14:22 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-13 20:27 ` amado.alves
2008-10-19 20:49 ` Michael Feldman
2008-10-21 11:16 ` amado.alves
2008-10-22 0:41 ` John McCormick
2008-10-22 8:50 ` amado.alves
2008-10-22 9:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-22 11:07 ` amado.alves
2008-10-22 18:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-22 19:26 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-22 20:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-11-04 15:31 ` amado.alves
2008-11-04 18:16 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-11-05 15:30 ` John McCormick
2008-11-12 12:23 ` amado.alves
2008-10-22 18:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-22 13:38 ` mcollado
2008-10-21 11:30 ` amado.alves
2008-10-21 12:34 ` Peter Hermann
2008-10-21 16:35 ` amado.alves
2008-10-22 13:40 ` Larry A Barowski
2008-10-22 13:33 ` Larry A Barowski
2008-10-22 14:11 ` Britt Snodgrass
2008-10-22 21:48 ` Larry A Barowski
2008-10-25 19:36 ` Marco
2008-10-28 0:49 ` lbarowski
2008-10-28 11:31 ` lbarowski [this message]
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