From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: No top schools use Ada
Date: 1995/04/20
Date: 1995-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.798404471@gnat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1995Apr20.105933.18413@driftwood.cray.com
Yes, I know you can program like this in Scheme, but what's the point?
To me if you are going to use a lisp-like language, it is horrible to
use this kind of procedural style. I would prefer to teach Haskel, as an
honest functional language, and Ada as an honest procedural language. I
find Scheme OK reasonable only if you confine your view to its functional
subset. To understand that your code really is in an insort place requires
a view of the semantics of the Scheme implementation that seems quite
inappropriate to me.
oops I mean inplace sort, not insort place, but I rather like the latter
thought, so I will keep it :-)
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-04-18 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.27781.798049024.ir001168@cec-services-01>
[not found] ` <3mrg2c$onn@disunms.epfl.ch>
[not found] ` <tomkwongD76x5L.AED@netcom.com>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Jeremiah S Patterson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was Geert Bosch
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Robert Johnson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Des Kenny
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Igor Chudov
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Spencer Allain
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Neil Wilson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Madison Cloutier
[not found] ` <D759Az.GHM@cs.fredonia.edu>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Ian S Nelson
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` First Language Debate etc Deepak Kumar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Deepak Kumar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Brian Hanson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.19974.798127420.cjames@cec-services-01>
1995-04-18 0:00 ` Jay M Martin
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-20 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1995-04-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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1995-04-21 0:00 ` Ian S Nelson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Jay M Martin
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