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Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
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On Monday, 9 July 2018 23:35:29 UTC+1, Bill Findlay  wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2018, Dan'l Miller wrote
> (in article<0908f2ae-ac32-4573-a630-9bf43250c35d>):
> >
> > 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.

Bradford replaced Ada95 (was Ada9X then) with Java in 1998, as I as leaving.