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From: marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide
Date: 2000/08/29
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In article <39ABC2C2.1AEC92E0@maths.unine.ch>, Gautier wrote:
>Larry:
>
>> course!)
>
>Precisely: my impression is that the Java(tm) marketing is far more efficient
>towards university professors than for the "real" computing world...

That is not my impression. I have a feeling that specially the small application
programmers have switched to Java en masse.
Big solid apps are still coded in C, C++.  

>Maybe they are attracted by pedantic, unefficient things - and the Pascal
>avatars aren't pedantic enough ?...

Childish remark. 

But to add something constructive: Anything with some structure, and 
reasonably strong typing is good to teach programming I think. Maybe Modula2 
would be best due to its simplicity, and being less fragmented than Pascal,
while even being stronger typed.