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Ada 95 was the language for 1st year Comp Sci at the University of Glasgow at the start of the millennium. There was a small revival in Ada at that time. I rem
by CraigJPerry 6y ago
Ada 95 was the language for 1st year Comp Sci at the University of Glasgow at the start of the millennium. There was a small revival in Ada at that time.
I remember the first lecture introduced a little graphical rocket simulation in Ada and us students would write code to land the rocket. I liked that.
Then i think the semester after this they introduced us to Haskell (ghc = Glasgow Haskell Compiler). Another good course but one i wished i’d paid more attention to at the time!
- desideratum 6y agoGlasgow alumni here. The Haskell course was incredibly well taught, though the the free learning material for Haskell (e.g. learnyouahaskell) is of significantly higher quality than for most other programming languages.
- tootie 6y agoNYU also. The profs were the creators of GNAT so they taught it instead of Pascal. I loved it but I haven't seen it in action ever in my life.