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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:52:27 -0600
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At 03:15 PM 3/5/2001 -0500, Ben Brosgol wrote:
>Interesting data, John- thanks for sending the information.
>
>But it looks like the message could also have been titled as "Students
>prefer Ada over C and C++".  In an Algorithms course (which presumably deals
>with data structures also :-) many of Java's deficiencies would become

The only reason I didn't is that the students do not have any formal
exposure to C or C++.   They had courses in Ada and Java before the
algorithms course.

John




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