From: ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist)
Subject: Re: No top schools use Ada
Date: 1995/04/19
Date: 1995-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D79HGD.Bo0@nntpa.cb.att.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3mq0jd$r10@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com
jmartin@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Jay M Martin) writes:
> Lets look at which languages the top CS department use for their first
> class:
According to the full list (summarized by Richard Pattis in comp.edu),
the most widely used language for CS1 is Pascal (36%). Ada is in second
place with 17.5%, C is fifth with 8.6%, and C++ is sixth with 6.5%. The
fact that none of the nine schools listed by Jay Martin use Ada for their
first class is not statisticly significant.
The use of C, however, is statisticly significant (P <= 0.05, barely).
If one wants to try to read anything into this preference for C, it is
important to keep in mind that the CS departments listed by Jay Martin are
the ones with top ranked *graduate* programs. Graduate program rankings
mainly reflect the quality of the research done at the department.
Kenneth Almquist
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist [this message]
1995-04-18 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
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[not found] ` <3mrg2c$onn@disunms.epfl.ch>
[not found] ` <tomkwongD76x5L.AED@netcom.com>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Jeremiah S Patterson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Johnson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was Geert Bosch
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Des Kenny
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Igor Chudov
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Spencer Allain
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Neil Wilson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Madison Cloutier
[not found] ` <D759Az.GHM@cs.fredonia.edu>
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.19974.798127420.cjames@cec-services-01>
1995-04-18 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Jay M Martin
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-20 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Ian S Nelson
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` First Language Debate etc Deepak Kumar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Deepak Kumar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Brian Hanson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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1995-04-21 0:00 ` Ian S Nelson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Jay M Martin
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