On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 13:22 -0500, Jon Brock wrote: > 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.
+1 (as the kids say). IMO the finest undergraduate programming textbook is Abelson and Sussman's _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_. They use Scheme Lisp and emphasize functional programming; they don't bother to introduce Scheme's assignment operator until nearly halfway through the book. I remember being stunned when I got to that point and realized I hadn't missed it. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
