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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada Date: 1996/10/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 192551949 references: <01bbb6e2$6385d540$23b2fd86@jssmith.csu891.sandia.gov> <326CF7BC.167E@hso.link.com> <32723CA0.7ED9@lmtas.lmco.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Estormza Software mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Has anyone seen this web page: Two professors from England explain why they teach C++ as a first-year language, instead of teaching Ada or Eiffel or Modula-2 etc. Since their charts list Ada as lacking support for object-oriented programming, perhaps they don't realize there's a new Ada standard (not to mention free compilers) that does. Pedagogues: any comments about the paper? matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant mheaney@ni.net (818) 985-1271