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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 16:01:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.huji.ac.il!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Lamm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:49:30 +0200 Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Message-ID: <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: di2-25.dialin.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 1002667966 32220 132.64.12.25 (9 Oct 2001 22:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.huji.ac.il NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:52:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14104 Date: 2001-10-10T00:49:30+02:00 List-Id: John English wrote in message news:3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk... > Several have switched to Java. Reasons include lack of beginner's texts > (which are all out of print because the market is too small because no-one > teaches it anymore...) and, more importantly, lack of standard libraries > for GUI development, networking, and data collections. Although there > are plenty around, none of them are *standard*, so the perception is that > Ada can't do these things. Not to mention that students want to learn Java, and are quite upset when made to learn Ada ("Why should we learn Ada, nobody is using it?!!") I think that adding Collections to the standard library would be a big help. I find it sad that when I want to explain what Collections are, I print stuff from the Java docs ;-( Ehud Lamm