From: scottw@bmtech.demon.co.uk (Scott Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ?
Date: 1995/04/19
Date: 1995-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jyaxda@bmtech.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3n35ja$6u3@theopolis.orl.mmc.com
In Article <3n35ja$6u3@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> Theodore Dennison
writes:
>>Miranda????
>>Languages are kind of a hobby with me, but I have NEVER heard of that
>>one [Miranda].
Obscure functional language, as you know now. I had to interview
someone yesterday, who's CS course had used only Miranda, Modula-2 and
Oberon (Imperial College, London). I think it's an excellent idea to
teach using some of these languages (I'm quite keen on Eiffel myself),
but we wouldn't even have considered employing him if he hadn't learnt
C under his own steam.
Diverging a little from the subject, could I also put in a plea for
anyone designing CS courses to include a little time (couple of days)
on the underlying machine representations? Three times now, I've had CS
graduates or doctors complaining that their compilers are broken, and
found that they were comparing floating point numbers for equality.
Scott
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Kenneth Almquist
1995-04-18 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
[not found] ` <3n10sv$i97@gopher.cs.uofs.edu>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Spencer Allain
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Neil Wilson
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.27781.798049024.ir001168@cec-services-01>
[not found] ` <3mrg2c$onn@disunms.epfl.ch>
[not found] ` <tomkwongD76x5L.AED@netcom.com>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler [this message]
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Jeremiah S Patterson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was Geert Bosch
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Robert Johnson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Des Kenny
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Igor Chudov
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Madison Cloutier
[not found] ` <D759Az.GHM@cs.fredonia.edu>
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.19974.798127420.cjames@cec-services-01>
1995-04-18 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Jay M Martin
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-20 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Ian S Nelson
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` First Language Debate etc Deepak Kumar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Deepak Kumar
1995-04-22 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Chris Morgan
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