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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-24 03:47:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Ada The Best Language? Message-ID: References: Organization: LJK Software Date: 24 Jul 2001 06:47:28 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995971649 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:47:29 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:47:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10499 Date: 2001-07-24T06:47:28-05:00 List-Id: In article , "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." writes: > Although I like the results of Professor McCormick's experiment, they are > clearly insufficient for making billion dollar and national security > decisions. One major problem is that, it is virtually impossible to do a > double blind experiment where neither the instructor nor the student knew > the name of the programming language that was being taught. The idea that students would subconciously apply more effort because the language is Ada is totally at odds with Ada's reputation among those who do not know it.