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Article #403Re: Which language to teach first?
From: John Gateley
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 21:19
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 21:19
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In article <44cb7970.f9df@gtephx.UUCP> reesd@gtephx.UUCP (David Rees) writes: >... It seems >to me that Scheme (and Lisp..) both would show a slightly distorted view >of programming languages in general. What I mean is that Scheme does not (in >my opinion) show a good cross-section of programming languages. >((((( It also has two many parentheses )))) :) > -David This is not my experience: Scheme (or Lisp) makes it easy to understand most concepts in programming languages: a prolog interpreter can be written in less than one page. All the basic stuff needed for Pascal-style languages is there. Even the dreaded GOTO can be done(in Scheme w/ call/cc, in Lisp w/ tagbody). The expressiveness of the language combined with the simple syntax make it a very good language for learning about techniques used in different languages. John gateley@m2.csc.ti.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!attctc!pollux!ti-csl!m2!gateley From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Which language to teach first? Message-ID: <86646@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> Date: 6 Aug 89 21:19:44 GMT References: <8514@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <14501@bfmny0.UUCP> <44cb7970.f9df@gtephx.UUCP> Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com Reply-To: gateley@m2.UUCP (John Gateley) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 19