[LINK] Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

[Danny Yee]

steve jenkin wrote:
> As for Java/ADA vs anything:
>     Show us the numbers/proof if you dispute the claims in the
>     article.
> Don't make more assertions.

About which I wrote:
| This is just some Ada people pushing Ada.

The fact that the authors are "Ada people" seems uncontrovertible,
since their affiliation is given as a company called "AdaCore".

It's hard to argue with their claims that there's something special
about Ada, since they provide no evidence for them at all.  They simply
assert

|       "Ada is the language of software engineering par excellence.
|       Even when it is not the language of instruction in programming 
|       courses, it is the language chosen to teach courses in 
|       software engineering."

The second sentence here is manifestly false, since there are many,
many software engineering courses which use languages other than Ada.

As for the complaints about Java, they seem to me to be complaints
about how it is taught rather than anything language specific.
You can overemphasize graphical interfaces and the use of toolkit
libraries with any language.

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