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In article <INFO-M2%91051513421792@UCF1VM.BITNET> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu> writes:
>I am a teacher of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous
>University of Mexico.  This semester, I am going to teach an introductory
>course in Computer Science, and I am planning to use Oberon.

Does anyone else think there's a problem here?

"I'm a prof.  I wanna use new-and-whizzy language X, in an *intro*
class.  This semester.  Don't have a complier or anything.  But not
to worry, I'll find a free version through the net.  I'm sure it'll
be of the highest quality.  Enjoy the class..."

Having watched an intro to assembly class go through the agony of
dealing with a buggy, immature, FTP-able, PD macro assembler (not even
a compiler), I've got some real problems with this approach.

Give your class a break.  It's one thing to play with new langauges
and experimental compilers in upper level classes, but the kids in
the intro stuff should be writing programmes, not fighting bugs and
quirks in an immature compiler (and, in the case of Oberon, a pretty
new language period).  Pick a langauge that has a solid compiler that
has been around for more than a few months.

DISCLAIMER:  I speak only for me, as a student whose been there...

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