From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software_engineers should know what Language?
Date: 1996/12/11
Date: 1996-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.850343686@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 58lfu5$e6g@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu
In article <58j7om$239@anubis.reed.edu>, dmoore@reed.edu says...
...snip...
> Again, not true. If you know pascal, great. If you are picking up
>the fundamentals of structured programming, pascal is a wonderful
>language to start with. However, if you are already familiar with
>structured concepts, as anyone even moderately proficient in C, or
>C++ is likely to be, it is simply a waste of time to learn pascal.
>Software developers are not children. They do not need the compiler
>to hold their hand while bludgeoning them with the fundamentals. If
>they have bad habits, they should be pointed out, the consequences of
>such habits concretely explained, and shown the correct (?) alternatives.
>If this does not cure bad habits, pascal will not either.
Gosh, sounds like another dialog writer for Hacker Senior from
Beltway Bandits Inc. :-)
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1996-12-11 0:00 ` Software_engineers should know what Language? Robert S. White
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Brian Orpin
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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