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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1f00e12fa1e87526 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:35:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:35:17 -0500 From: Larry Elmore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050515 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dr Dobbs dismisses Ada References: <42891b5f$0$31069$626a14ce@news.free.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.1.185.39 X-Trace: sv3-4ZLerybg55AXnunF9aCNn2NS8sMqyzMuZMwAbjnOaz7/iBzXoq6t8G8Hp3RlOjpwsCpaiEBf8qejHaX!AjPfmRkC94sJGCAyiYZEn7IMtRYkwrYLJCnH5UC9fGAFGR3/EeX2yWg6f90YFILGqMOH/fKVRw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11076 Date: 2005-05-17T20:35:17-05:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > spammenot <"Simon(spammenot)"@skcs.co.uk> writes: > > >>Im a beginner (2nd yr computing student) when it comes to Ada but I >>can at least give you an insight into what is happening within my >>university (Glasgow) >> >>Just last week each and every computing student was sent an email with >>an invitation to a meeting regarding a change from ada to java. The >>proposal is to use java as our first language in 1st and 2nd year >>courses instead of ada. >> >>So it seems as though universities may be moving on as well. > > > That would be "one university"; your university is not all > universities :). If only it were only one university. I see online that my old school (Montana State University) has switched from Ada to Java for 1st and 2nd year CS courses, as well, and it's C++ for most of the other classes. --Larry