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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Do college AP tests require C++ knowledge?
Date: 1997/12/09
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Date: 1997-12-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Charles Lin wrote:
> 
>     You can get some of these answers, I suspect, by just heading
> out to the Web page for the AP stuff (probably www.collegeboard.org
> or www.ets.org), and they probably have a telephone number as well.
> But, yes, I believe the tests are making the transition to C++.
> 

This is a problem.  C is much more of a lingua franca than
C++, like FORTRAN was 20 years ago.  Also, many educators
are seriously opposed to basing the student's education on
C++ and instead prefer Java, Ada 95, or Eiffel.  

-- 
Stanley Allen
mailto:s_allen@hso.link.com