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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/14
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In article <85mpvr$mm42@ftp.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
> 
> Magnus Alexandersson wrote:
>>My school is dropping Ada for Java since the Ada books are hiedously
>>expensive here in Sweden and Javabooks come by the tenfold...
> 
> 
> Are the students time worthless? 

Perhaps even more money could be saved by changing the course to teach
them how to program Excel spreadsheets.

Larry Kilgallen