> I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not > mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc.
> This seems like the teaching of "making do". And is not making do an important skill? More seriously, as long as Unix variants maintain their position of importance (something that shows no signs of going away), C will be an important language for anyone outside academia to know - and many of those inside academia. As such, I would say that any program with so much as pretensions to preparing people for the real world needs to teach it to some extent. Certainly not exclusively (I know I'm a better programmer for knowing many languages). Perhaps not even predominantly. But as theoretically ugly as it may be, it is still pragmatically critical. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
