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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: mdw@excessus.demon.co.uk (Mark Wooding) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178737050 x-nntp-posting-host: excessus.demon.co.uk references: <01bb8df1$2e19d420$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <4vcac4$gm6@zeus.orl.mmc.com> <01bb8f19$9a89d820$32ee6fce@timhome2> <841797763snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> organization: Straylight Development Lab reply-to: mdw@excessus.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lawrence Kirby wrote: > In article <01bb8f19$9a89d820$32ee6fce@timhome2> > tim@airshields.com "Tim Behrendsen" writes: > > >There is no other view than the procedural view. > > Some functional language programmers might take issue with that > statement. Prologgers may have a thought or two also. I've not come across a computer yet which doesn't work by fetching an instruction (or maybe a few at a time), doing them, and then going off and fetching some more. I guess you can pretend that this isn't the case, and maybe come up with some nice ways of presenting algorithms which don't depend on this, but that's not the way things work underneath. The One True View is that sequence of instructions; all else is an illusion. Maybe it's a helpful illusion, but illusion it is nonetheless. -- [mdw] `When our backs are against the wall, we shall turn and fight.' -- John Major