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Article #426Re: Which language to teach first?
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 16:47
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 16:47
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In article <6204@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) writes:
> What a joke... how do you handle abstraction without packages?
> How do you separate specification from implementation? How do
> you enforce the security of an ADT without limited private types?
[...exception handling, concurrency, generics, ... ]
What is a beginner in CS101 (or whatever your intro to CS course is called)
doing any of that for? First you crawl, then you walk, then you run. ADA
for introductory programming is like Air Jordans for 1-year-olds.
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