Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

["Frank" <franjoe@frisurf.no>]

Hi!

Are there Ada courses on NTNU?

Frank

Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrn987ego.mc.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:12:34 -0500, Marin David Condic wrote:
> >This is just a perceptual observation, but it seems that C.L.A. is
> >enjoying an increased participation level in recent months. Does anybody
> >else share this perception? Has anybody looked at the statistics to know
> >if there has been a significant increase any time recently?
> >
> >If true, it would be a good sign.
>
> Yes it would.
>
> What would be very nice was if a lot of the students who take Ada 95
> courses at the university could see that Ada 95 can also be used to
> make cool programs using either GtkAda or SDL or other Toolkits. I
> mean that one see that one can make nice GUIs with Ada too and not
> only the hyped Java. So that when the students that also codes as a
> hobby, goes home they will continue programming in Ada 95 and not
> revert to C/C++ or Java. I think Linux and the desktop area of Linux
> is a opportunity for Ada to make a "comeback".
>
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