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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use")
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"Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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> How do we get the word out about Ada? I don't know, but do I know that
> Ada is not the only superior technology that is being squandered due
> to ignorance.

This is my perception, too.  I learned Ada at my undergraduate university.
There was an informal survey of students about the computer science
department by one of the professors.  A result, that is interesting to from
the CLA point of view, is that a majority of the students appreciated being
taught Ada, first and other languages second.

In graduate school, I had found that my colleagues at not completely set in
their ways.  They will learn and a few expressed interest in the language.
Mostly, they do not have the time to rid themselves of their ignorance;
however, that has never stopped me from sending them a link to the pdf of
"Ada Distilled".

I have a feeling that if Ada were taught in more universities in the US, Ada
would experience a growth of popularity.  It is hard to go back to other
programming language after Ada because you start missing all of its
features.  Of course this just switches the question to "how do we get the
word out about Ada to educators" ;-|

-CRM