This one time, at band camp, Umar Goldeli said:
>Seriously though.. teaching kids at uni languages that are completely and
>utterly useless (and UNSW still does this - Haskall (sp?) - a Miranda
>replacement or somehting.. is a complete and tter waste of time..
>
>I mean what use is a functionally orientated language which can't do much
>apart from using it in a mathematical context?
Because as Crossfire was saying, you need to start with a language that
teaches you the concepts in an easy to grasp way. Haskell is a
brilliant teaching language, and it was also suitably different from
anything anyone would have had experience with before they begun uni,
thus putting everyone on a flat playing field at the beginning of the
course.
I don't necessarily agree with the last statement, but I believe it was
hinted at during the course.
Conversely, though, I really enjoyed coding in Haskell, it was easy to
debug, you could program based on a few rules that you had to remember
to adhere to, code just fell out of your brain and 99% of the time
worked first go ;)
>On another note - comp sci is ust getting stupid nowadays anyway - you can
>actually get through a degree without touching anything but silly
>macroturd things.. and M$ Access to be a "DBA"...
Comp Sci is getting stupid anyway, <cue rant about guvverment funding,
unis passing most students so they can get more money, workforce being
filled with people who don't know what they're doing>... I won't mention
a second year course that held a supplementary supplementary
supplementary prac exam for the people who failed the supp. supp. exam,
because that's way off topic.
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