The authors were discussing the use of Java as the students' *first* programming language.
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. Jon <snip> Why should what language is taught matter, after the second or third language, IF you are a programmer, it's just another language. Mostly syntax, some semantics. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
