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Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java)

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java)
Date	2012-05-07 18:17 +0000
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On Mon, 07 May 2012 09:43:31 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> 
>      No, I can not remember the last time I saw production code with
> deliberately-used octal constants.  In fact, I do not think that I have
> ever seen code with the leading zero octal constant (except as a
> documentation example or as an example of this problem).
>
Me neither, at least not since I last used an ICL 1900, which would be 
back in the late 1970s.
 
>      From time to time, I do see call statements (or their
> equivalent).  I will be seeing more and more.  The call statement in
> T-SQL is execute, and that is used quite a bit.
>
Its quite a common verb in COBOL too. Used every time an external 
subroutine is run.  CALL "that-subroutine" USING PARAM-1 PARAM-2.
 

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Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-05 20:23 -0400
  Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-05-06 12:22 +0000
    Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-06 11:36 -0400
    Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-06 17:10 +0000
  Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-07 09:43 -0700
    Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-05-07 18:17 +0000

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