On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:55 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would amend Curtis Pew's language with just one word, that shown in > majuscules below > > Pascal was writtern by Niklaus Wirth as a teaching langjuage to > instruct NOVICE programmers in the principles of structured > programming. > > It is much concerned to interdict practices, e.g., GOTOs or > unconditional branches, that it deems 'unstructured' or 'anarchic'. > > Opinions still differ sharply---There has been no design > convergence---on what an optimal programming language is. We do, > however, know one thing: Requiring students to use a nanny language, > be it Pascal or Smalltalk, to pick two very different ones, does not > teach them to be good programmers. They can and usually do write > opaque, turgid routines in both. > Yes, the old "You can write FORTRAN in any language". > > -- > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- I have _not_ lost my mind! It is backed up on a flash drive somewhere. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
