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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada Date: 1996/10/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193051110 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) writes: > Has anyone seen this web page: > > _Choice.html> > > Two professors from England explain why they teach C++ as a first-year > language, instead of teaching Ada or Eiffel or Modula-2 etc. Since their > charts list Ada as lacking support for object-oriented programming, perhaps > they don't realize there's a new Ada standard (not to mention free > compilers) that does. > > Pedagogues: any comments about the paper? Not a "pedagogue" but, it is just this sort of thing that gives academic "CS" such a poor image to various people. How can two so called "professors" be so clueless about their chosen field of expertise????? It makes them (and by association...) look like incompetent fools. Well, if the shoe fits... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com