Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?

[richard <catbird.island@gmail.com>]

On Mar 15, 9:21 am, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> Luke,
>
> > AFAIK, York still teaches it, because Alan Burns teaches there.
>
> Note only this university, but lot of others. See for example all the
> GAP members using GNAT GPL:
>
>    http://www.adacore.com/home/academia/members/
>
> And this does not count university not using GNAT or not registered.
>
> Pascal.
>
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We are a GAP member with a couple PhD students using Ada, and maybe
two faculty members.
However , Ada, once required of students is no longer used I. The
curriculum.
Our Computer Science faculty is largely hostile toward Ada.  People
read the
memorandum from Mr. Page (1996) as meaning that the DoD abandoned Ada,
and that view has persisted.  The prevailing view among the faculty is
that
Ada is no longer relevant for real projects. This is not likely to
change.
Nothing significant has occurred to alter that perception.  As the
lone
member of the faculty to still tout the benefits of Ada, I am regarded
as something of a throwback to an earlier time, humored and tolerated,
but
not taken seriously in my advocacy of Ada.

I continue to update my book, Ada Distilled, and release it free for
anyone
Who wants to use it.  That is as close as I get to teaching the
language
these days.