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Article #382Re: models (was Which language to teach first?)
From: Harry Barman
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 09:02
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 09:02
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Another good "leveller" first language is ML. Since ML is a functional language with a decent type system, it is much easier to teach the basic concepts to people who have never programmer. It is also very good for the people who have written programs before. Often they have only written some cobbled together Basic/Assembler/C, and ML shows them that there are other languages & keeps 'em quiet :-). In the UK, I think both Hatfield Polytechnic and Cambridge University teach ML as a first language, perhaps someone from either of those places might like to comment? -- Harry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!otter!hjb From: hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: models (was Which language to teach first?) Message-ID: <2400026@otter.hpl.hp.com> Date: 2 Aug 89 09:02:52 GMT References: <18814@mimsy.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 12