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Article #5106Re: Re: First Languages (yet again)
From: Janet: csrdi
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 12:40
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 12:40
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Well, at Edinburgh we've been using Pascal for the last few years, but there is now a movement afoot to use ML as the first teaching language. I know that this year's first year will be getting introduced to ML quite shortly. My own experience of learning ML (in second year) had quite an effect on my programming style. Learning Prolog also affected it - I think in both cases for the better. Functional languages certainly give a greater appreciation of the computational process, I think, than procedural languages do. If you want an understanding of what's happening at that level, something like ML is a very good first language. --Rick. -- Janet: csrdi@edinburgh.its63b BITNET: csrdi%uk.ac.ed.its63b@UKACRL ARPA: csrdi@its63b.ed.ac.uk UUCP: not recommended - we pay real money for it! "Life would be so much easier if everyone read the manual."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!csrdi From: csrdi@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Janet: csrdi@edinburgh.its63b) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Re: First Languages (yet again) Message-ID: <932@its63b.ed.ac.uk> Date: 29 Jan 88 12:40:47 GMT References: <4022@ames.arpa> <2400002@otter.HP.COM> Reply-To: RDI@uk.ac.ed.ecsvax (Rick Innis, CS4) Organization: Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Lines: 20