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Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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On Oct 25, 3:36 pm, Marco <prenom_no...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> But I do think adding the "j" to the name was a mistake, most folks
> don't care what a program is written in (unless it is too slow).

The fortunate thing for us was that Java did take off,
especially for education. So although it may have turned
some people off, the "j" probably did us more good than
harm.

> At
> the time, it seemed like Ada was being abandoned for the upstart Java.
> We never really liked the Java based version, because at the time, it
> seemed a little slow.

It was slow at that time, but we had faith in Moore's Law.
The time needed to maintain, develop, and test two very
different versions with a dozen different builds was
killing our progress and stability. Having a more-or-less
single codebase was well worth creating a new version and
having it be a bit slow for a few years.

ThisisLarrybarAtEngDotAuburnDotLearninginstitution
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