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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results
Date: 1997/12/03
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<<Yup. CS grads especially, have had a religious prohibition of GOTO beat
into their head.
>>

That's an over-generalization, certainly it is something that I avoid. The
trouble is of course that most university CS professors know zilch about
programming, and manage to pass on their lack of knowledge very effectively
to their students.

Please note I said "most", not all. I know of several exceptions, in fact
the Ada community tends to have quite a few university folks around who
*do* know how to program (this of course is not a coincidence, those who
know zilch about programming are much less likely to understand the
advantages of Ada :-)