From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fef3ad775ef4b0b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <60e0c5f0-1e17-4add-b21e-b1ef622d5233@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <6gj2s5-0f9.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> <543356bc-7862-45d2-9004-dfef69deab26@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:56:16 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Oct 2008 16:56:19 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: cf9e0f97.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=GaPDF@CJ^Sm<6cDJZfMd_cic==]BZ:afn4Fo<]lROoRaFl8W>\BH3Yb;M8[E`MgX]oDNcfSJ;bb[eIRnRBaCdX`5i X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2346 Date: 2008-10-12T16:56:19+02:00 List-Id: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:00:51 -0700 (PDT), John McCormick wrote: > It never ceases to amaze me how computer science educators want to use > bleeding edge technology in the beginning courses. I don't see anything bad in that. It is the question what is considered as a bleeding edge. Ada is certainly one in large, high-integrity, concurrent systems design. It also has a very innovative OO types system. (However, there are problems with irregularity, MI, MD). It is a question of how do you sell it. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de