Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?

[Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 8 Jul 2018, Dan'l Miller wrote
(in article<877d0a01-d342-433c-a541-3662736ae857@googlegroups.com>):

> On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-5, Bill Findlay wrote:
> > On 8 Jul 2018, Dan'l Miller wrote
> > (in article<1ab5db5c-7892-40a8-ae36-ca1ec1168768@googlegroups.com>):
> >
> > > If there is one single root-cause reason that Ada failed to launch
> > > on the launchpad from, say, 1985 to 1993, it was this spurned-detest of Ada
> > > in telecom, not because of what was in or not in Ada, but because telecom
> > > was
> > > excluded from the selection process.
> >
> > There is another.
> >
> > The right-on then-dominant faction in CS academia,
> > who might have been expected to welcome a language soundly based on SE
> > principles,
> > boycotted it without further consideration, simply because it originated in
> > the DoD.
>
> I strongly suspect that was because of universities' desire for finding favor
> in AT&T's eyes regarding coveted Unix licenses (pre-1984) ...

(a) We had a Unix licence since 1975, and a BSD licence since 1978.

(b) The people who negotiated licences were not the people who decided which 
language to teach.

So no, paranoia about AT&T had nothing to do with it.
Knee jerk aversion to the products of the DoD had everything to do with it.

> Every college and university (or school/division/department therewithin)
> hitched their gravytrain wagons to 1 of those 3 during the 1980s.

In your experience, which was not ours.

-- 
Bill Findlay