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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:35:26 +0100 Message-ID: <0001HW.20F41AAE005D6C41700004D5A2CF@news.individual.net> References: <856189aa-fa00-4960-929e-174f352310ad@googlegroups.com> <2718c8d4-5f35-4fd8-a1aa-1e60069a7a5d@googlegroups.com> <39fce60c-9f56-42fb-b679-fa08810b00ee@googlegroups.com> <3701bf07-89a5-4cb0-a704-5aebb589ca79@googlegroups.com> <2f5e4ce0-94e8-4b94-9da7-045ec90a9b22@googlegroups.com> <9bb99fb4-b9c7-4516-97b5-da41466e96be@googlegroups.com> <1162d6bf-c226-4089-ae2e-870c7da9c80f@googlegroups.com> <2f5399b4-518b-4a2e-9941-2ae267d51309@googlegroups.com> <1ab5db5c-7892-40a8-ae36-ca1ec1168768@googlegroups.com> <0001HW.20F291E2002A542F70000C5E92CF@news.individual.net> <877d0a01-d342-433c-a541-3662736ae857@googlegroups.com> <0001HW.20F38DBF004C10E470000C5E92CF@news.individual.net> <0908f2ae-ac32-4573-a630-9bf43250c35d@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 2v3uI31Cww9oSmPevMAO3AUSpllCv3LRERp+Mk6YD1l4AJL2S9 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:A5iQi8g0KX3QTmlZiiAPQp1ZSeM= User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.19 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53747 Date: 2018-07-09T23:35:26+01:00 List-Id: On 9 Jul 2018, Dan'l Miller wrote (in article<0908f2ae-ac32-4573-a630-9bf43250c35d@googlegroups.com>): > > https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-foundation.html > Although the data are quite stale, the historical trend graph is fascinating. > This shows the uptake of Ada in universities was presumably greater during > the 1990s than during the 1980s (unless there was a not-shown precipitous > collapse around 1990 or so and then a rebound post-1992). After 10 years or so of using Ada 83 only as a CS3/CS4 option, we committed to Ada 95 as the CS1/CS22 foundation language, starting in 1996. That held for about 10 years, when Ada was replaced by Python, "because it is more fun". Thankfully I was well away by that time. -- Bill Findlay