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Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content")

From: Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:04:25 +0100


ljknews wrote:


What is wrong with this picture ?

I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not
mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc.
 

Makes sense to me. what is the point of teaching dead languages like 
Ada, Pascal, and PL/I?  Teach C, Assembler, and Java/C# (for the 
mainstream), and some lisp variant (Scheme, ML, Haskell) and Prolog 
variant for variety. But Ada, Pascal, and PL/I are suitable only for a 
"history of programming languages" course :)


Crispin

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Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Wall, Kevin (Jul 02)
- Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") der Mouse (Jul 02)
  - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Fernando Schapachnik (Jul 05)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") der Mouse (Jul 05)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Fernando Schapachnik (Jul 06)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Dana Epp (Jul 06)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Mark Rockman (Jul 06)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Dana Epp (Jul 06)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") James Walden (Jul 07)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") ljknews (Jul 07)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Crispin Cowan (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") der Mouse (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") James Walden (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Julie JCH Ryan, D.Sc. (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Dana Epp (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") ljknews (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Jose Nazario (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Blue Boar (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Jose Nazario (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Fernando Schapachnik (Jul 08)
    - Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content") Blue Boar (Jul 08)

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