We were taught "Miranda"... now that's a waste of time.
I think all students should be taught Perl compulsorarily! ;)
(and warp their point of view early, like it should be.. :)
//umar.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>
> >Would it be ironic that since I learnt Java, I can't stand it, and
> >prefer C++ over it? :)
>
> I was taught Pascal (talk about dead languages!), taught myself C (and
> failed the course because I was spending all my time writing C code!), was
> pleasantly surprised when I had the opportunity to learn C++, but now much
> prefer Java or a decent scripting language ... ie, Python or Ruby, not perl :-)
>
> >I don't know what my point is, but the key part to learning a language
> >(computer or human) is to know the concepts first, and do the
> >translation when you need to communicate your ideas.
>
> Which is why you really need to start with a language that allows you to
> play with as many different programming methods as possible. Of course,
> that's almost a vote for C++, so one needs to add "... and doesn't make you
> spend more time tracking down silly mistakes that the language shouldn't
> let you make (or should recover from) than learning the concepts". Ie,
> make sure it's got garbage collection, for example, and preferably none of
> those darned pointers that can scribble anywhere!
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