I watched the evolution of the teaching of programming languages at Ateneo from 1982 to the present -- that is, PL for incoming CS freshmen. Here is the chronology:
Apple Pascal Turbo Pascal on CP/M Turbo Pascal on MSDOS C on MSDOS/Win + C on Unix Java on Windows Java on Linux We started teaching Java to freshmen more than five years ago, even before Java became fashionable. This was through the insistence of Arnie del Rosario, Dr. John Paul Vergara, and Dr. Luis Sarmenta (of Vir-X fame). I voted for continuing with C under Unix, but I lost to the Java vote. This year, the young faculty have started to teach Java under Linux. There seems to be some differences between Java on Windows and Java on Unix/Linux. These differences became obvious to me when a graduate student of mine working on graphical analysis of paper chromatography images kept getting errors/warnings when Java code that passed javac for Windows was recompiled using javac for Linux. He got frustrated and decided to junk Windows and work under Linux instead. If you ask me, I would have written the thing in C under X and it would have run faster. But his Java version, although slower, runs under most platforms! PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
