From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (TRAN PHAN ANH) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/20 Message-ID: <1996Jul20.195559.122803@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169171437 references: organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > " > Never, never, never try to start learning a language before you > learn how to program. A good algorithm simply cannot be replaced, > and learning how to write an alogrithm is in programming, not > in learning a language. You can sit down and read a hundred books > about how to use pointers and linked lists in c++, and you still > won't know how to use them in a good manner, if at all." > > > I am very familiar with the highly unusual approach Georgia Tech takes, but > I find the above remark rubbish. You cannot express algorithms unless you > use a language to express them in, and for my taste, a well chosen > programming language is as good choice as anything. Rubbish....absolutely. I know some friendly dudes, who know all the bloody O(n) for every algorithms, but as soon as they sit down to implement one...oh opps...core dump. Oh, to make matter worse, they choose algorithms based solely on O(n). Anh