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From: Colin Paul Gloster on 2 Jul 2010 10:07 On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Georg Bauhaus sent: |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[..] | | | |An then, when a teacher has different assorted backgrounds, picking| |up the language of the day because that seems required, has he/she | |got a chance to see all this clearly? And to form instructions | |accordingly? | | | |[..]" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| My secondary degree (from Umeå University and Luleå University of Technology) is my only degree for which Ada was on the course. It was lectured in only one subject. That subject had two lecturers, both lecturing about (parts of) Ada (they did not know all of Ada, not even with their knowledge combined). The lecture notes were copied from another university. One of the lecturers asked me about some of the language which he was to lecture us about soon afterwards, because he did not know the language well enough to be lecturing on it. Yours sincerely, Paul Colin Gloster
From: Peter Hermann on 2 Jul 2010 10:25 Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus(a)futureapps.de> wrote: > ... a teacher > has no trouble wiping away all questions by noting that > "task" is a reserved word, and more about it later. > Just get rid of it. But that's the point! That is what > error messages can strive to be like in a "teaching compiler". that's the point indeed. sehr gut. The evolution of compilers towards better error messages may only happen incrementally. Therefore AdaCores "GNAT Academic Program (GAP)" is so precious.
From: Colin Paul Gloster on 2 Jul 2010 10:26 On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Georg Bauhaus sent: |--------------------------------------------| |"On 03.07.10 10:35, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:| | | |[..]" | |--------------------------------------------| It is not yet July 3rd, 2010. Many recent posts by Dmitry A. Kazakov with bogus timestamps are not being shown by two news servers which I use.
From: Non scrivetemi on 2 Jul 2010 13:52 > The design of Ada can hardly be held responsible for subjecting students > to incompetent or untrained teachers. Indeed, Michael Feldman, one of the more famous professors advocating and teaching Ada appears to me to be extraordinarily good at what he does. I have one of his early textbooks and it's positively outstanding for clarity and cleanliness.
From: anon on 2 Jul 2010 14:51
In <i0kssq$dcc$1(a)infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, Peter Hermann <h(a)h.de> writes: >Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus(a)futureapps.de> wrote: >> ... a teacher >> has no trouble wiping away all questions by noting that >> "task" is a reserved word, and more about it later. >> Just get rid of it. But that's the point! That is what >> error messages can strive to be like in a "teaching compiler". > >that's the point indeed. >sehr gut. > >The evolution of compilers towards better error messages >may only happen incrementally. >Therefore AdaCores "GNAT Academic Program (GAP)" is so precious. Most compilers are still written in software shop from programmers that care less who uses them. But Adacore's GNAT was design at NYU. Dr. Robert Dewar and the Ada Team was requested to design a compiler that aid the Ada programmer. And, Robert Dewar a NYU associate professor at NYU in 80s .. 90s knew that most professors do not want to help students with simple syntax errors that a compiler could easily give a hint to. So, GNAT is great in reporting the syntax errors. With some warning messages on simple program design flaws like report a warning that routine calling itself may result in an endless loop error. And this also, trys to fills a few requirments from the RM which other compilers have not. Dr. Robert Dewar -- At NYU he was codirector of both the Ada-Ed and GNAT projects. And is a cofounder, president, and CEO of AdaCore. |