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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 30 Aug 2004 12:16:37 -0700
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"Richard  Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<olUXc.625$8d1.548@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> "Kevin Cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e749549b.0408271348.74f5a957@posting.google.com...
> >
> > Are there any CS programs that have chosen Ada as their core language?
> >  I rarely meet recent graduates with any exposure to Ada at all.  For
> > better or worse, (worse in my opinion), most CS departments seem to
> > have settled on Java.
> >
> On this point we agree.  In my programming paradigms
> course (taught at the graduate school level), I have opted
> to begin with functional languages instead of imperative
> languages.   

I applaud you for this.  In my experience, programmers familiar with
functional languages learn a deeper way of thinking about code, and
tend to produce much smaller and more maintainable code than
programmers who have never been exposed to FP.

> The students entering this course already
> have at least one Quarter of Java.  In my view, they
> need to understand how to write programs without
> doing any assignment at all.

Perhaps more importantly, how to write programs without 
the array and the for-loop.