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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!01cc3b7c!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Richard Riehle" From: "Richard Riehle" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:02:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.81.218.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1093669332 66.81.218.136 (Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:02:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:02:12 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3109 Date: 2004-08-28T05:02:12+00:00 List-Id: "Kevin Cline" 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. 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. I follow that with C then C++ then Ada and a brief look at Eiffel, Prolog, and a few others (sometimes Smalltalk if there is time). Students need to have more languages and need to learn them from a positive viewpoint. As much as I dislike C++, I try to keep students interested in it from a positive attitude. Richard Riehle