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Re: Your eternal soul is at stake

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On 25/10/16 12:26, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> 
>> On 23/10/2016 21:51, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> <snip>
>>> I once taught programming using Pascal (at a university), but that was
>>> (good grief!) three decades ago and it was the last year that Pascal was
>>> used.
>>
>> What did they switch to after Pascal?
> 
> "C with classes" as is was then called.
> 

When I was at university, we used whatever language the course lecturer
liked best.  For the most part, we were expected to just learn the
language as needed.  So the algorithm design class used Modula-2, the
operating systems design class used C, the parallel algorithms class
used Occam.  I think the only language we were actually taught was for
the early classes on programming from specifications (mathematically
deriving provably correct code), using a functional programming language
similar to Haskell.

Concentrating too much on a particular language at university is, I
think, a mistake - the emphasis should be on development processes,
software design, algorithms, etc., rather than the details of a
particular language.  If you teach the foundations properly then the
student can pick up the details of a new language in a very short time.

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Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:00 -0700
  Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:46 -0700
  Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 09:59 -0700
  Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 11:02 -0700
    Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 17:52 -0700
      Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 07:30 -0700
        Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 03:36 -0700
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-10-23 11:43 +0000
  Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 23:25 +0800
    Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-23 17:38 +0200
      Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 23:49 +0800
        Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-23 21:51 +0100
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 12:55 +0800
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-25 10:29 +0100
            Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-25 11:26 +0100
              Re: Your eternal soul is at stake David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-10-25 12:47 +0200
                Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-25 12:36 +0100
              Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 22:29 +0800
                Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-25 16:54 +0200
        Re: Your eternal soul is at stake Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-10-23 19:28 -0400
          Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-23 16:33 -0700
            Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 12:52 +0800
              Re: Your eternal soul is at stake "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-24 22:35 -0700

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