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From: "Graham Perkins" <gperkins@gperkins.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit     addressing and OOP
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"Kevin Cline" <kcline17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > One more amateur teaching Ada with no experience using it on
> > projects.   There was so much of this going around that no one
> > should be suprised that so many students came away from their
> > Ada classes with a distorted view of the language.
>
> Do you think the situation is better for other languages?  It
> certainly isn't for C++.  I've interviewed people who taught evening
> classes in C++ and OOP at the university level and they were
> hopelessly confused.

The text books don't help.  So hard to find the
wheat amongst the chaff.

I once found a C++ book which doesn't start on classes
until chapter nine!