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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec20777e0d41ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-20 12:32:01 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news3.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Frank" From: "Frank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:27:16 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.67.135.47 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no X-Trace: news3.oke.nextra.no 982701113 130.67.135.47 (Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:31:53 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:31:53 MET Organization: Nextra Public Access Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5379 Date: 2001-02-20T21:27:16+01:00 List-Id: Hi! Are there Ada courses on NTNU? Frank Preben Randhol 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". > > -- > Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- > iMy favorite editor is Emacs!bcwVim > -- vim best-editor.txt >