* Languages for CS1
@ 1992-10-22 11:01 Richard Pattis
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Richard Reid at MSU has been publishing a survey of language use in CS1 for the
last 3-4 years. He normally posts in comp.edu (you can get the raw data
there). In the 7th, and most recent survey, the top languages were:
Language Now 6th Survey
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Pascal 124 123
Ada 57 26
Modula-2/-3 50 35
Scheme 50 18
C 21 21
FORTRAN 8 6
C++ 7 6
Certainly this is not a scientific survey, and I'm not sure what bias there is
in the schools that respond, but he seems to have gone to great lengths to
verify the data he did receive. I'll leave it at that.
Rich
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