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From: Mike H <newsreader@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk.INVALID>
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Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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In message 
<1fe7f0a7-498c-4fd2-833f-ff223220dfc1@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, 
amado.alves@gmail.com writes

[snip]

>Using JEWL and then telling my students
>"if you want graphics you have to use Windows" will send the wrong
>message I'm afraid... Not pedagogical at all.
If the students take their Ada out into the real world then they will 
find themselves deep in the world of mixed language projects.

Having taught Ada at undergraduate level and then moved out of Academia, 
I would suggest that one of the things they must learn is not to 
re-invent a wheel when a perfectly good one can be bought off the shelf. 
One of the projects that I worked on was the kernel of an air defence 
system, written in Ada, of course. But the GUIs, including the simulated 
radar displays, where not.
-- 
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Mike