[plug] Debian CD's covers and Computer Science courses

[Phillip Steege]

If you want to work in the Defence industry, then ADA is a plus, both here 
and overseas.

On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:45 am, Simon Scott wrote:
> You ain't just whistling dixie. Ive seen the effects of this, where
> grads want to do *everything* in java. Had a discussion with a friend of a
> friend about PHP/XML, and continually the conversation went back to java.
> Java everything. You can do anything in java, and according to these people
> you should.
>
> 	JAVA JAVA JAVA JAVA JAVA
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> 	ADA is a nice teaching language, thats why they use it. Very few
> languages are so strongly object oriented. You'll never work with it, but
> the concepts will stick with you forever.
>
> 	Unless you have Tom O'Neil, and then youre screwed anyway. :)
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> 	At least ECU didn't adopt the java everywhere thing, like curtin has
> (yuck, i
> 	can't imagine a worse language to teach people on). They used to do
> pascal,
> 	but oviously, it wasn't cool enogth for them :-(
>
> 	Beau Kuiper
> 	kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
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