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Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:30:44 +0200
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At our place, Ada is tought in the context of a required elective course 
on safe and secure systems, which most of our master students take. 

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, richard wrote:

> However , Ada, once required of students is no longer used I. [...] Our 
> Computer Science faculty is largely hostile toward Ada. [...]
> 
> I continue to update my book, Ada Distilled, and release it free for 
> anyone Who wants to use it.  That is as close as I get to teaching the 
> language these days.

I like your book, and I recommend it to students. Thank you for that 
contribution!


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