In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
01/11/2008
at 01:22 PM, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Anyway, I'm not so sure I hold to the "it's just another language"
>mindset as much as I used to. It seems to me that there are important
>differences between the way you conceive of and design a program in
>assembler/COBOL/C versus, say, Ruby or Java.
My position is that the CS department should be teaching multiple
languages in the first semester, carefully chosen to offer variety in the
semantics and syntax. The intent should be to teach the Perl mantra
TMTOWTDI.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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