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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec04f9d45b3f527 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-28 20:22:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:22:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:23:52 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada advocacy method References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.127 X-Trace: sv3-JTKU7QQLE9ac0QJdmq16+BuxEuXAc/tR8Lnd+6gmH0r5stJUj3TFWE49vUB2NofbCp4bdBGyQb10k+A!xuHonrtI+o99Hmw0fNju8HJiVKHaV+76WfA2hm/tGI0+iIiVfybvCX4qUdB5aiehwlj0IajfNfk5!qg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com 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: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41934 Date: 2003-08-28T22:23:52-05:00 List-Id: Chad R. Meiners wrote: > ;-) usually at that point the students are willing to switch, but I wait > patiently until the students ask me "How can you stand programming in C++" > then I tell them that I don't have too. ;-0 Sure, but the class _is_ C++, and no amount of Ada-awareness is going to get the C++ syntax into their heads. Help them pass the course, and maybe someday they'll be able and willing to choose something better. -- Wes Groleau Can we afford to be relevant? http://www.cetesol.org/stevick.html