Re: An Ada advocacy method

["Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>]

"Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message
news:U6edncK7vLwcCdOiU-KYvw@gbronline.com...
> Offer to tutor Comp. Sci./Soft. Eng. at your local
> Univ.  While helping with whatever topic, look for
> opportunities to gently raise awareness.
>
> Some guidelines:
>
> 1. Don't be a jerk or language bigot.
>
> 2. DO help the student with the _actual_ topic
>     of their class.  When tempted to say,
>     "A better way is to just do it in Ada,"
>     it's time to remember guideline #1

It is just so tough when you see a student scream at the link error messages
produced by

cin << "Hello World" << endl;

;-)  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

-CRM