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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:39:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1086633567 217.209.116.179 (Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:39:27 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:39:27 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1205 Date: 2004-06-07T18:39:27+00:00 List-Id: Peter C. Chapin wrote: > Alas, there is only so much time in any curriculum. It was decided that= C=20 > had to be in the program and that there wasn't enough time for both Ada= =20 > and C. Thus Ada was dropped. That seems very strange to me. In the university courses in programming=20 I've taken, they first taught us functional programming in Scheme and=20 then imperative programming in Pascal. Then we moved on to=20 object-oriented programming in Java, modelling in UML, and a kind of=20 mathematical notation for data structures. There was even time for some=20 BNF. That was all in courses intended to be equivalent to about 20 weeks = of full time studying, and meant for students who hadn't programmed befor= e. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu