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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities.
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Date: 2004-06-07T18:29:26+01:00

>>Sounds like universities suffer from the chicken and egg
>>problem.
> 
> In the late 1980's we taught Ada at Vermont Technical College (in the 
> computer engineering technology classes) as the student's first exposure 
> to programming....

Was that a vocational training or a University degree? I can understand 
vocational training curricula bending to the job market demand to the 
point of excluding something theoretically better, but this should not 
happen in Universities. Make room!