Joe Landman
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:16:36 -0700
Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Kyle Spaans wrote:
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There are also "CS for non-majors" classes in Python I believe. I can't comment on upper-year project type things though, because I'm only in my 2nd year. :)C is good. Scheme I'm not so sure about. Maybe it's just my curmudgeonly upbringing, but learning to code in a "standard compiled language" has its benefits, if only separating the people destined for coding greatness from the ones who should become accountants or lawyers or something instead.
Eeekk... return of the language wars. They all have the same morphology Person1: "My language is better than yours" Person2: "Oh yeah? At least I use a real OS, CP/M!" and its downhill in a cascade of responses from there ... [...]
But this is an old and standard rant by now.
:) But aren't they fun to rehash ? -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf