From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:25:30 +0200
Date: 2011-03-28T12:25:30+02:00 [thread overview]
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Le Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:26:02 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
> No, I mean that things being taught are often ignored or hated by
> students.
Ouch, that's so bad ? :(
> Practical work leaves a deeper imprint. In general I am a bit sceptical
> about teaching programming languages. Programming is not a science and
> languages are even less than science.
True for Ada, which was designed with practical purpose in mind, but just
less true some other languages (not the topic here anyway). Yes, Ada is
not formal in the mathematical sense.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-12 1:33 is Ada still being used for teaching at universities? Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-12 12:01 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-13 13:22 ` John McCormick
2011-03-13 13:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-14 13:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-15 16:00 ` Lucretia
2011-03-15 17:21 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-15 19:16 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-15 19:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-27 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 10:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2011-03-28 12:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 17:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 21:56 ` richard
2011-03-29 7:30 ` stefan-lucks
2011-03-14 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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