On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Kirk Fraser <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Fortran was displaced in business because early Fortran had no structures >> and random record-oriented file access, and because of some silly >> government requirements for computer system procurement. >> > > Not according to management at Champion International. > I have no idea what "Champion International" is and why I should care, but I *do* know that the US DoD made an early requirement for all computer system providers in defense contracts to provide all computer systems with COBOL, and that was it. I am guessing the three fundamentals educators agree to are implemented in > obscure ways in the languages you are thinking of. For example in > primitives or composition. > My three fundamentals come specifically from Sussman and Abelson. If Sussman and Abelson don't qualify as educators, then I don't know who else does. Note that I'm ignoring all the crappy "educators" who actually display a severe syndrome of tunnel vision in their textbooks, such as those that I was forced to endure in my youth before I found *actual* quality education materials such as SICP, EOPL, TAPL, ItoA etc. "The Bible is the fundamental document of America's Founders" > "Book X is a fundamental document of person Y" is a meaningless syntactic structure, unless you actually want to claim that there is Ben Franklin's biography stashed somewhere in the Books of Kings. > "which made the most important and powerful nation in the world rise from > 13 colonies. Thus you lost your bet." > I bow to your awesome powers of non sequitur. - Gath
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