Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry

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"Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message 
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> The best evidence that C++ is on its way out is that now in many DoD 
> contractors, they just assume that all projects should be C++. By the time the 
> DoD contractors start using something, you can be pretty much bank on it being 
> obsolete :)
>
At the school where I am now teaching (Naval Postgraduate School) the
decision has been made to use Python as the first programming language.
We will still require students to learn C,C++, and Java, but that is all.  In
one of my classes, I still require them to learn Ada.

The sign on my my office door reads, "C++ is its own virus."  Sometimes
when I write a paper for publication I use Ada or Eiffel when I need to
illustrate some point with code.    For example, my paper on "Desiginng
Software to Tolerances"  will use both Ada and Eiffel examples and
appear in the July issue of Software Engineering Notes (an ACM
publication.)

Richard Riehle