Re: Why one school changed from Pascal to C++

[lrk@pobox.com (Lance Kibblewhite)]

allenb@desun1.epfl.ch (Philippe Allenbach) wrote:

>
>Not to begin a language war and personnaly, I don't use C++ but still worth
>reading,I thought it would be interesting to spread this post to other 
>newsgroups.
>
>>I found this through a publisher's home page.  It's a paper detailing 
>>(It's several screens long, I haven't read it all the way through yet) 
>>why the CS program at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (in the 
>>U.K.) switched from Pascal to C++ in their introductory CS class.
>
>>I thought some of you might find it interesting.  Personally, I've 
>>always liked Pascal, and I'm glad I was taught it, but I'm really 
>>curious about their reasons.  Here's the URL:
>
>>http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/books/apprentice/InstructorsManual/C++_Choi
>>ce.html
>
>>AMT
>
>Philippe Allenbach
>allenb@desun1.epfl.ch

To be fair, it should be pointed out the analysis was done some time
ago, and does not include Ada 95.  Nor Ada 9x, which in interesting
since they obviously had no problem including other languages for
which the standardization process was still in the draft stages.
-- Lance.