From: steve <steve@seasoned-software.com>
To: William Murray <billg@ALOHA.NET>
Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1997/12/19
Date: 1997-12-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <349A9C54.98584406@seasoned-software.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 67g0dl$63q@nuhou.aloha.net
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William Murray wrote:
> In article <34ff11df.753819154@news.peacesummit.com>,
> ian@peacesummit.com (Ian Upright) wrote:
> >John Seitz <seitz@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> It is interesting the criteria for deciding on the first language to learn.
> The 2 year technical college in my old hometown had as their FIRST COURSE for
> Comp Sci majors - 370 Assembler. The reasoning was that AL immerses the
> student in the "basic" structure of the machine and the operating system.
REDICULOUS! And they got people to BELIEVE them? The STRUCTURE depends on the
machine. You don't operate on a frog to learn the structure of a human.
Sructures CAN be similar, but often vary greatly. The 370 doesn't run DOS,
WINDOWS, UNIX, VMS, etc.... So MOST people will learn NOTHING of the OS!
> At
> least that was the stated reason; I also heard that the "real" reason was a
> "survival of the fittest" test. It weeded out those students who could write
> "simple" programs in easier languages but did not have the skills/desire to
> handle complex systems.
Well, it would backfire! Some that would learn would get scared. Some 370
programmers are NOT good programmers.
> NOTE: I don't really agree with this viewpoint; just thought it would be
> interesting to introduce a different view. Of course, that was a long time
> ago and they have probably changed to a truly cryptic language, like C. <g>
Well, at least C is something they can use elsewhere, is popular, and has a
STANDARD set of Portable Operating System Interface (functions) eXtended(AKA
POSIX)!
It ALSO has things that are just as complicated as assembly, so they might have
their "weed out" feature too.
Of course, I do NOT consider C a good first language to learn.
Steve
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1997-12-12 0:00 ` Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java? Roedy Green
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-12-16 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Alicia Carla Longstreet
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
[not found] ` <01bd0c0b$53cc1860$26db45cf@juddesk>
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-18 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-18 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-30 0:00 ` Chris Gray
1997-12-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1997-12-30 0:00 ` paulr
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Which language pays most " arnie sherman
1997-12-30 0:00 ` Dann Corbit
1997-12-31 0:00 ` John Slaman
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1998-01-06 0:00 ` Jedi
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Highlander Consulting
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Carsten Arnholm
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Highlander Consulting
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Charles F Hankel
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Paul Groves
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Patricia Shanahan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Barrabazz
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Patricia Shanahan
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Ron Peterson
1998-01-14 0:00 ` anonymous
1998-01-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
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1998-01-23 0:00 ` dnns
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Philosophers Nick Roberts
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Spam--> was:Re: Philosophers Dann Corbit
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Doug Miller
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Philosophers John G.
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1998-02-04 0:00 ` Philosophers The Goobers
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1998-02-02 0:00 ` Philosophers Pat O'Connell
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1998-02-10 0:00 ` Philosophers cyanide
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Philosophers The Goobers
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Philosophers Mad Hamish
1999-07-29 0:00 ` Philosophers firewind
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Philosophers John G.
1998-02-10 0:00 ` Drifting further off topic cyanide
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Philosophers Jens Schweikhardt
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Philosophers Mad Hamish
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Philosophers Kurt Wall
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Philosophers Mike Whiten
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Philosophers The Goobers
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Philosophers Arnold Trembley
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Philosophers The Goobers
1998-01-26 0:00 ` :-) Philosophers Giovanni Drogo [drogo@rn.bastiani.it]
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Philosophers Steve Dekorte
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Philosophers The Goobers
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Robert Garskof
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Steve Dekorte
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Barrabazz
1998-01-28 0:00 ` dogmat
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Tim Oxler
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Tim Oxler
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Wayne L. Beavers
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Frank A. Adrian
1998-02-03 0:00 ` GLE
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **
1998-02-03 0:00 ` The Goobers
1998-01-29 0:00 ` coryb
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Patricia Shanahan
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-09 0:00 ` cyanide
1998-02-10 0:00 ` dogmat
1998-02-10 0:00 ` Bill Lynch
1998-02-10 0:00 ` Michael Rot13 Klein
1998-02-10 0:00 ` Jeff Knaggs
1998-02-09 0:00 ` cyanide
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1998-02-11 0:00 ` dogmat
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Larry Wiggins
1999-07-29 0:00 ` Ben Pfaff
1999-07-29 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1998-02-02 0:00 ` This thread has drifted miles from its subject line Wes Groleau
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1998-02-02 0:00 ` Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Kaz Kylheku
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1998-02-05 0:00 ` This thread has drifted miles from its subject line Paul Osborn
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1998-02-11 0:00 ` Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Kaz Kylheku
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1998-01-03 0:00 ` Berna L Massingill
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1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
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1998-01-03 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
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