> I don't think it unreasonable to try to keep alive the notion that
> at least certain kinds of academic institutions
> would and should remain a degree removed from idea of
> training, and a degree committed to the idea of
> stimulating the development of more abstract skills
> by way of a less g
Hello Kirby,
Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 4:11:32 AM, you wrote:
KU> I like CS courses which sample (in my freshman CS course a Princeton, we
KU> played with SNOBOL, APL, PL/1, FORTRAN, and no doubt some others I've
KU> forgotten). That being said, you also need an "anchor" or "home base"
KU> languag
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>>Also, down the road, I can see a CS curriculum which is pretty .NET centric,
>
>
> To me, the spirit of Python and .Net are quite unaligned.
>
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>
> It is also no small thing to me to feel inhibited
> from mentioning Ted's entry and hoping to stimulate some
>Also, down the road, I can see a CS curriculum which is pretty .NET centric,
To me, the spirit of Python and .Net are quite unaligned.
It seems that many of us who feel aligned with Python
feel aligned with it in spirit, more than in anything in
particular in its syntax and semantics.
If we in
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> In fact, the only areas I think Python is *not* suitable are low-level
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