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In article <mgreenaw.814490475@lancelot.st.nepean.uws.edu.au>, mgreenaw@lionel.st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Mark Greenaway) writes:
|> jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:
|> 
|> >What language is used for first class is not as important as 
|> >which languages are used in the core classes and which languages
|> >are used in research.  If you take your list and sort by 
|> >the top 40 US CS departments, you get:
|> 
|> I disagree. The basic fundamentals formed in an introductory course 
|> affect the student's view of computing for all courses afterwards.

This is really evident in C++.  Given the large influx of C trained C++
programmers it is not surprising that one of the continual debates in
comp.lang.c++ is "What is the use of reference parameters when I can
just use pointers instead?"  Having come from a Pascal/Modula-2 background
I found the lack of reference parms in C a real pain and their inclusion
in C++ a blessing.
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