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

[Tullio Vardanega]

That's very good, John.
Look forward to it.

-- Tullio

> 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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