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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,751d508677a5add1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news From: starwars Message: This is a Type II anonymous message, sent to you by the Winston Smith Project StarwarS mixmaster server at pboxmix.winstonsmith.info. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact pbox-admin@winstonsmith.info. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming References: Message-ID: <34916b86e4980907a5ae300ee220e6de@tatooine.homelinux.net> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:38:45 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12067 Date: 2010-07-01T03:38:45+02:00 List-Id: > I think the choice of CS teaching languages went something like this: > > PLI/SNOBOL -- the dark ages ? No, that was already late in the game. FORTRAN came out in 1957, I think COBOL came in 1959. Those two languages dominated CS curriculum in business and mathematics areas for many years. Although PL/I came out in 1963, FORTRAN and COBOL were already entrenched in production and education so not many schools taught it although compilers were certainly available from IBM. SNOBOL was a niche language (and one I happen to like alot) but was also not widely taught. Interesting language but not really great for teaching or production, so not much of a player. I don't know about the rest of your list but aside from your timing on Pascal (may Wirth burn in hell) I think most of the rest of the list is off.