"W. Wesley Groleau x4923" wrote: > ... > Some of the points may be addressed by John McCormick's experience > switching from C to Ada in a real-time class. (with C, and half the work > done for them, no one ever completed the project; with Ada, and 10% done > for them, half completed it.) For those of you who missed John's 5-Star keynote briefing with this data on Oct. 20 at SIGAda'99, visit http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigada/conf/sigada99/Keynoters/ where John's is the 2nd PPT file. Charts 7-8 present the data about C & Ada project completions (& code supplied) mentioned above, and the next 3-4 charts offers John's observations about the differences in the languages accounting for those results. Sorry, we did not capture the video of his train lab running & the wonderful old train songs. However, visit http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada99/AdaWow.html which points to the PDF archives of SIGAda99's daily newsletter ("Ada-WOW," Ada's Window On the World). The Oct.21 issue (#3) contains an article on John's keynote by Chris "Mr. Ada" Sparks and a photo of John (you might be able to make out the locomotive & smoke on his tie), and the last issue (#4) contains one pic of his train layout. Of course, time allowing, John <[log in to unmask]> is always glad to answer questions and tell more about his railroading in Ada! But he's at the ACM SIGCSE symposium in Austin this week. -hh