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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Arrays in java
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:12:57 +0000 (UTC)
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Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
> Lew wrote:
> ...
>> I started using the JLS very early in my Java career, and it has never 
>> given me cause to regret that choice.

> I feel the same way, but that is irrelevant because of my prior
> experience. Was the start of your Java career also the very first time
> you had ever attempted to write a computer program?

I learned my first language, Fortran, from the IBM S/360 Fortran IV
reference manual. Then again, I am probably not a typical case.

> Some colleges are using Java as the first language for their freshman
> computer science students, and teaching it as one of the first courses.
> That means there are teenagers trying to learn Java who have no idea
> what a formal grammar is, or how it works.

-- glen