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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news-in.ntli.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!news-text.cableinet.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities. From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:27:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.185.234 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1086636420 82.41.185.234 (Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:27:00 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:27:00 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1210 Date: 2004-06-07T19:27:00+00:00 List-Id: On 7/6/04 7:55 pm, in article mailman.69.1086634524.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org, "Marius Amado Alves" wrote: > > But there's no Ada being taught in Europe either. > Oh, yes there is! Glasgow University uses Ada 95 as the foundation language for CS1 and CS2, and has done since 1996. FP using Haskell is added in CS2; C and Java are added in CS3 (it's a 4-year program.) When certain senior professors tried to have Ada replaced with Java, the class head of CS1 threatened to resign. Ada 95 was retained. In 2001 there was a curriculum review, at which Java was again touted. Thanks to the staff teaching Ada, there was again no change of policy. -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk