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From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:05:15 GMT, Israel Raj T
<israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote:

>On 15 Oct 2001 03:24:09 -0700, Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <3bca9c74.1660187@news.demon.co.uk>, john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam
>>>Of course it is - Pascal was designed as a teaching language, Java
>>>wasn't designed.
>
>Most of the better comp.sci courses use a functional ( haskell  or ml
>at Cambridge and Oxford ) or semifunctional ( scheme at mit) as a
>first language for their undergraduates.
>
> However, Stanford ( perhaps the best practical comp.sci dept in the
>world ) seem to use a mixture of c++ , java and c.
>

I thought both ml and scheme were AI type languages. I remember that
Brunel in West London taught ml as part of the AI module of a Digital
Systems MSc. Scheme I thought was a similar concept to Lisp, which is
often touted as AI based.