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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:07:04 -0700
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On 6/29/2010 11:40 PM, anon@att.net wrote:

>
> The big conspiracy among academicians is pushing C++ and other languages,
> were bad habits can become a cancer to the programmer/maintainers of any
> software package.

I think the choice of CS teaching languages went something like this:

PLI/SNOBOL -- the dark ages ?

Fortran -- late 70's ?

Pascal/Ada/Module2/  80's. The golden age (algorithms+data 
structures=programs)

C/lisp  80's-early 90's ?

C++ 90's - early 2000's ?

Java late 90's/middle 2000's ?

Python now ?

HTML5/JavaScript -- 2010's and for the rest of the 21 century :)


--Nasser