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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 08:09:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3b47806a_4@news3.prserv.net> <877kxianb2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9ibs7t$mim$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: is ada dead? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:09:26 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:09:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9675 Date: 2001-07-09T15:09:26+00:00 List-Id: In article <9ibs7t$mim$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, Bobby D. Bryant says... >Languages are ephemeral. If I were designing a CS curriculum I would >require the students to use a different language every semester: partly >so they would be flexible when they graduated and got a job in the Real >World, partly so they wouldn't develop the One True Language mentality >that you see so often, and partly so they would learn to see beyond the >syntax to the underlying universals. That's pretty much what my undergrad program did (Tulane, for those of you taking notes :-) ). I think CS1 and 2 were Pascal, but other *required* courses used Assembly, C, SQL, and AHPL. Due to electives I also had to use LISP and Fortran. They were quite up front that they were training us to be able to pick up practicaly any language. I can also say first hand that I found this exposure *very* valuable. For instance, I always had trouble getting my mind around recursion, until I spent a few months programming in LISP. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com