From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book
Date: 1996/11/23
Date: 1996-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.848780691@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Nov23.082018.1@eisner
Larry says
"If students do not experiment with styles, they will be ill-prepared to
contribute to the style discussion when a group such as that which wrote
GNAT chooses a style (as described many bytes ago in this newsgroup)."
Well that's like thinking that students who have never been taught about
gotos know nothing about gotos! I doubt that requiring a consistent style
in the very first course guarantees a set of graduates who will never have
an opinion on style!
The point is that this early on, it is too early for students to make a
considered judgment anyway. After all in a first course, you typically do
NOT fully explore the programming language design space, that comes later.
You might as well say that they should be able to freely choose the syntax
and semantics they use for writing programs in the first course, on the
grounds that otherwise they will be ill-equipped to contribute to
discussions on language design!
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-18 0:00 Looking for a good Ada 95 book Ray Toal
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-23 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-24 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-11-24 0:00 ` S. McLain
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Jim Carr
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Teaching Team/Maintenance Programming (was: Looking for a good book) Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Looking for a good Ada 95 book Laurent Gasser
1996-12-02 0:00 ` John English
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Debora Weber-Wulff
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Suzanne B. Zampella
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-26 0:00 ` S. McLain
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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