On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 20:22 -0700, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: [ . . . ] > > It looks like whoever made that decision has a pretty big chip on > their shoulder and it's pretty clear from that sentence alone that > students going to his/her class will get a pretty incomplete and > biased picture. [ . . . ] >
I think we can see fallout from the 1980s. Then it was Imperative vs. Declarative but rather than coming to any sane resolution, the battle evolved into Functional vs Object-oriented. Of course C was what people who weren't using Pascal, Fortran, Ada, Modula-2, Smalltalk, etc. were using and thus C++ became the poster child of object-orientation. Which in itself is a bit strange as the object-oriented of C++ wasn't the object-oriented that the object-oriented folk were fighting for! In the UK, successive governments have over the last 20 years tried to destroy the university system. Most of the quality imperative-supporting programmers/teachers left for sensible work--life balance and salaries, leaving a much higher percentage of declarative/functional-supporting folk in academia. These people remember the 1980s and are now going in for the final victory of the Paradigm Wars. Looks like something analogous is happening in the USA. Did you fight in the Paradigm Wars? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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