On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
>> Java sucks because it doesn't have pointers :-)
>>
> No, Java and C# are *great* because you can get on with being
> productive
> and not have to worry about memory management and pointers. :)
>
> It's 2007. Why would I want to be allocating my own memory?
Of course, the answer is "it depends". Mostly on what level you are
programming to.
If you are creating hardware drivers and the like, you'd better be
using a low-level language. If you are writing a business app for 100
users to access a database server, it would be silly to do that in
anything other than a high-level language.
The reason why Python was chosen was precisely because the courses
dealt with concepts such as algorithms, looping, conditionals,
classes, etc. - things that are common to all languages. The faculty
simply felt that Python required the least amount of language-
specific instruction, allowing them to focus more on teaching
programming concepts.
-- Ed Leafe
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