re: Incorporating 9X into Ada courses

[SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU]

Ken Rowe asks:
Has anyone taken a stab at including Ada9X features into their current
Ada courses?  Does "introducing Ada9X" look like it will be helpful?

Ken.
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Yes, we are including it in an Ada course to be given
several times this summer. We plan to tell them
about Ada 9X
programming in Ada 83 in anticipation of Ada 9X
designing to utilize Ada 9X
transitioning to Ada 9X (re-tooling, re-training etc)

Will it be helpful?  I'll know more about that after
I receive a list of students, their backgrounds and
planned post-training assignments.  My cynical side
says that maybe the most help will be that it will look
good on their resume.

The 9X stuff will be lecture only (no lab).  That reminds
me of teaching Ada in the early 80's before DIGITAL had
an Ada compiler. [yes, i recall there was Ada-Ed but
VAX system administrators wouldn't let me use it for labs
because of the cpu looading]  We have RR's beta 9X compiler
so we can machine check some of the presentation material.
]

I'll post again as things progress.

sam harbaugh
saharbaugh@roo.fit.edu