From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?
Date: 1997/07/30
Date: 1997-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jul30150612@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SGI.3.95.970730073454.15333B-100000@shellx.best.com
In article <Pine.SGI.3.95.970730073454.15333B-100000@shellx.best.com> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shellx.best.com> writes:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Glenn Williamson wrote:
> > ... about Eiffel ...
>
> > However, In my opinion, it is the perfect language to teach the
> > principles of Object-Oriented Programming. While C and C++ may dominate
>
> But what if you think that there is far more to programming than OOP? That
> functional, constraint, and logic programming are equally important
> "paradigms"?
Exactly. Actually, functional, IMO, is significantly more important
than OO.
> Personally, I'd prefer my intro programming course to be in Scheme,
> using Abelson and Sussman's text. Maybe it doesn't have teach the
> methodology du jour, but I found that the material in that book has
> hardly aged since I took the class about a decade ago!
Indeed. In 20 years SICP will still be highly relevant, useful, and
probably fresh. OO may well have been tossed on the junk heap by
then, but in any event (IMO) will not be holding center stage.
/Jon
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1997-07-11 0:00 Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? ivory
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Michael Schuerig
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Richie Bielak
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Tom M. Chen
1997-07-11 0:00 ` robinsaj
1997-07-12 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
[not found] ` <33CA5E3D.475B@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <33CB8E75.7CB1@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Jan Bielawski
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Technical Professionals and the humnaities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?) Chris Kuan
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-07-20 0:00 ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Joseph M. Saur
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Henrik Wist
[not found] ` <33CF6C0E.4983@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Walt Howard
[not found] ` <01bc94e6$9ced0820$287b7b7a@tlo2>
1997-07-19 0:00 ` Frieder Monninger
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Glenn Williamson
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-08-01 0:00 ` I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"! Jakob Engblom
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-03 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-08-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-07 0:00 ` Andrew Semprebon
1997-08-08 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-11 0:00 ` Jeff Brown
1997-08-13 0:00 ` quadrafeline
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-08-04 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
[not found] ` <dewar.870872376@merv>
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Heribert Slama
[not found] ` <5s8bsh$mo0@alumni.rpi.edu>
1997-08-06 0:00 ` C/C++ is the best teaching language??!? HARRY R. ERWIN
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Tom Valesky
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Nick Payne
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Sean Case
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Kimball
1997-07-31 0:00 ` Why I didn't like Eiffel Glenn Williamson
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
1997-07-31 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Don Harrison
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Don Harrison
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