[GAP] Regarding Cyril's Reply to My Rant

Dr. Carl S. Brandon carl.brandon at vtc.edu
Thu Nov 8 23:21:34 CET 2007


Hi Richard,
> Ted,
>
> Thanks.  Martin informs me that Ada is on the way out at the
> USAF Academy.   
>
> I wonder whether anyone has some good ideas about how to get Ada
> back into the curriculum.   Most of our computer science department
> colleagues seem to be opposed to including it.  
>
> .....
>
> My question is still open.   What schools are still teaching Ada? 
It is taught at Vermont Technical College in the Programming Languages 
Course, and is also being used in a Cubesat satellite project, and a 
NASA grant research project (if funded).
Carl
> Do
> those schools intend to continue teaching Ada? 
Yes.
>   Is the inclusion of
> Ada the passion of a single
a couple of
>  professor 
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