[GAP] Use of Ada 2005

[Robert Dewar]

David Bover wrote:
> We use Ada 95 for the first 3 courses in our programming sequence, 
> taking students from introductory programming, through data structures.  
> After that, our students may progress through upper-division courses 
> that use C, C++, C#, Java, Scheme, Python - you name it!
>  
> I expect we will move to Ada 2005 at some stage but, given our use of 
> Ada, there is no urgency.  From my quick perusal of the documentation, I 
> guess we will make use of the Java-style interface, but don't see any 
> radical changes to the way we use Ada.  The timing of our change will, 
> of course, be dependent on availability of reliable support software.

If you teach the object oriented features in the context of object
oriented programming, you might find the new prefix notation a handy
addition.