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=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,URI_WP_DIRINDEX autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,f096ebb5dcac664d X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!nospam From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in teaching Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:28:28 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: <4a5ce82c$0$32682$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <4a5d17f2$0$30231$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gr5of1hdi0tj0iRH+r3HrkxCqC8= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7076 Date: 2009-07-15T14:28:28-04:00 List-Id: In article , John McCabe wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:08:54 -0400, "John B. Matthews" > wrote: > > >I don't teach except in the sense of occasionally being asked to guide > >students of one language in using the other. I'd be interested to learn > >of any reference that outlines corresponding features of the two > >languages. > > I don't know of one off-hand, at least not one that addresses Ada 2005 > and Java 6 e.g., but Ben Brosgol appears to be a bit of an expert on > this sort of thing so it might be worth trying to get hold of him or > some of his articles. Ah, thank you. I see he's written extensively on the topic: Highlights of is most recent presentation are summarized here: -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com