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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
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I agree, in general, but I would insert one caveat: some form of
assembler language should be included, as well as a variety of
higher-level languages.
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TMTOWTDI.
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