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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: is ada dead?
Date: 08 Jul 2001 11:01:05 +0200
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"Andrzej Lewandowski" writes:
> You are in a good society. I was once teaching Real Time Programming and was
> using Ada. This was at not that bad U.S. University. Once, after the end of semester
> students brought to the Dean collection of Classified from local newspapers and
> asked him to find at least one job as that would require Ada. Dean was smart enough
> to send them away. And was smart enough to have a nice chat with me. And I was
> smart enough to spend the whole summer converting my course from Ada to C.
I hope you understand that Ada is not only the syntax, right ? Any good
programmer should be able to switch from one language to another in a couple
of days. But with Ada you have certainly been taught the way to handle large
piece of software, how to structure a software and many other software
engeenering princilples. At least I hope :)
All this is rarely well understood using other languages.
Another way to see that is that learning Ada was certainly a very good
investment for you enven if you don't use it today.
Just my 2 cents,
Pascal.
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