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From: ohk@tfdt-o.nta.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB)
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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Date: 1997/11/21
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> <<>One Academic institution (not mine, thank God!)has bowed to student >demand, an
> d CS1 is now going to be taught using C++ instead of Ada as a >first language.
> >>
> 
> The funny thing about this is that the students, who think they are following
> the latest fad, have *just* missed the boat, no doubt by mid-semester they
> will be complaining that they are not being taught Java.
> 
> Actually of course, the whole idea of students telling professors what to
> teach has its amusing side :-)

Actually, they do, and have always done. If you don't get any
students, you'll soon get the message.