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-Thread: 103376,df1a7f1c3c3bc77e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.134.100.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com 1178311018 ST000 70.134.100.216 (Fri, 04 May 2007 16:36:58 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 16:36:58 EDT Organization: AT&T http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@SBEQJV]SQ@[EZOD]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXHJUZ]CDVW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:37:13 -0800 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15546 Date: 2007-05-04T13:37:13-08:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey Creem" wrote in message news:vtfsg4-9si.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com... > > 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