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: 2001-10-13 03:41:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!feeder.qis.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!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: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:36:29 +0200 Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Message-ID: <9q95lm$b4l$1@news.huji.ac.il> References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q42jo$lu8$1@news1.sunrise.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: di4-21.dialin.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 1002969591 11413 132.64.14.21 (13 Oct 2001 10:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.huji.ac.il NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:39:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14453 Date: 2001-10-13T12:36:29+02:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:9q42jo$lu8$1@news1.sunrise.ch... > 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 > -- Good to hear. I can think of many good reasons myself... (In fact I even think that using Pascal is better than using Java as a first language). Ehud Lamm