From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,24233bd1dad4372c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,24233bd1dad4372c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,3017a0f3697c6154 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,24233bd1dad4372c X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Software_engineers should know what Language? Date: 1996/12/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 204498414 references: <57ghrj$jn7@knot.queensu.ca> <58j7om$239@anubis.reed.edu> <58lfu5$e6g@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. :-)