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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?
Date: 1997/07/30
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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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