Ian, Jim, et al, [Jim said] > > Ian, > > Not true, there is still at least one that hasn't changed to Java! > > Here at Portsmouth we still teach Ada as the first language to a wide range > of students on our computer science, software engineering and information > technology courses. We believe it is the best language to support the > teaching of the foundations of programming, especially modularity, > readability and correctness. We use GNAT because it gives students better > help with error messages than any other compiler we've seen. > Exactly. Our 3rd and 4th year students tell us this also. After they have the perspective of two languages and two compilers, they tell us how much they miss GNAT. > We also believe Ada provides an excellent platform from which to go on to > teach Java, which we do in the second year for CS and SE students. That was > a change this year (we used to teach C++) and seems to have gone well. Same here at GW. Ada serve as a good foundation on which to build Java and C++. Our experience mirrors Jim's. > [snip] > Regards, > > Jim Briggs. > Mike Feldman