[GAP] Turning a rant into a contribution to the Ada-Europe 2008 conference

[John McCormick]

Tullio,

I'll put together an abstract based on my real-time systems class 
with the data I have comparing languages used over quite a few years.

John

At 07:55 PM 11/28/2007 +0100, you wrote:
>All GAPpers,
>
>but in particular those who involved themselves in the
>discussion thread spawned by Richard Riehle's rant ;-)
>
>You may know that among the topics of interest to the
>Ada-Europe 2008 conference (16-20 June) in Venice, Italy,
>of which I am the organizer, there is one titled "Ada and Education".
>
>Thought the deadline for the submission of regular papers
>(i.e. those that we will select to feed the LNCS proceedings
>of the conference) is long past, I would be truly delighted if
>someone from this group would like to jot down a paper to
>present at the conference which touched on such issues as:
>- what languages should be used in the software engineering
>curriculum in comparison to what are actually taught: where
>Ada stands in that business and how Ada could instead serve
>that curriculum
>- what it takes (or should take) for a graduate to learn Ada
>in comparison to the (false) perception that if Ada is not taught
>in the curriculum then "there are no Ada programmers around".
>
>If anybody was interested (which I hope) whether individually
>or as a joint venture in undertaking that project, they should
>produce a 1-page abstract and send it to my by Friday 11 January 2008.
>The program committee of the conference will determine whether
>the proposed paper can fit the program (which I will defend if
>I like the abstract) and then a final version for inclusion in the
>Ada User Journal will be required by the time of the conference
>along with the presentation to deliver there.
>
>Anyone out there?
>
>-- Tullio Vardanega
>
>
>
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