the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth

[Simon Lewis]

Until recently Aston University taught Ada as the first language  
(this changed to Java in about 2003).

They wanted to use Ada as a learning language because it had many of  
the control structures/features found in other languages.

If you want to code the control system for a plane/tank I would  
recommend having a look.

Simon


On 7 Aug 2006, at 15:52, Peter Corlett wrote:

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> It was Ada in my day, a language that was certainly quite  
> interesting in a perverse kind of way, but of no use to me since.
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