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: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: <4t0oqs$poq@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170609525 references: <1996Jul20.195559.122803@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Broward newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: TRAN PHAN ANH (anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) wrote: : 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 -- ***********begin r.s. response*************** (theory vs. practice) obviously... these are interrelated and interdependent! (since "the beginning of time"...) stone throwing like this... in either direction... is unintelligent! ***********end r.s. response***************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us