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From: ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist)
Subject: Re: No top schools use Ada
Date: 1995/04/19
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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