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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Ada not recommended in North Carolina?
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 21:52:43 +0000 (UTC)
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http://www.cs.unc.edu/~kettner/courses/lib_design/notes/example.html#Booch
compares 125000 lines of Ada (83) Booch components and later C++ 15000
lines after a redesign, concluding (in April 2000)
"So this report doesn't seem to be a recommendation for Ada."
The lecture is about Algorithm Library Design.
Let him think what he wishes, but isn't it desasterous that teachers
recommend languages (sometimes even the 1 and only) based on ancient
misinformation?
How can students protect themselves when the text otherwise seems
based (biased :-) on scientifically presented data?

A thread about this
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=3c57c4042471bc02&seekm=dewa
r.824906485%40schonberg#s