Re: Teaching Java and Perl

[Mark Rogaski]

An entity claiming to be Roger Burton West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: 
: So really it's Pascal all over again - if you only teach them one
: language, it's what they'll always use. If you teach them two,
: they may just possibly see the similarities and start to generalise
: to the class of "programming languages in general"...
: 

So, you learned with Perl, eh?  Programmers, by nature, tend to be able to
learn new languages when necessary.

Mark

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