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Ada was the programming language used when I took computing science in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002.
by hoyd 5y ago
Ada was the programming language used when I took computing science in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002.
- naltun 5y agoFyt like the day in Glasgow?
- sambeau 5y agoIt was Pascal, Haskell* and C back in the 1990s. * and variants of Haskell, e.g. Gofer
- iamevn 5y agoWestern Washington University used it for intro CS classes until about 8 years ago. They switched to doing the professor's choice between Java and Python which most people seem to prefer now. Some of the professors do still use it for classes on concurrency and proofs. I really appreciated the sort of errors the compiler gives you but remember struggling to find good beginner level documentation. I kept landing on more specification-style docs which were more confusing than helpful. Also diving straight into Java after Ada was a shock.