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From: webwarrior@webwarrior.ch
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:11:03 +0200
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Ehud Lamm wrote:

> 
> John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
computer science students still have to learn ada in their first year 
programming course at the swiss federal institute of technology. so ada 
doesn't seem to die too quickly ;-) and they really gave us looots of 
reasons why to learn ada and not java first
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