Re: Is C/C++ the dominant teaching language?

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From: Daniel Eldred
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:07

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In a previous article, dformosa@isoulte.st.nepean.uws.edu.au (David Formosa) says:

>jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:
>
>>najork@pa.dec.com (Marc Najork) writes:
>
>>First, Pascal is a ancient joke, you can't really do anything real in
>>it today and in my opinion those schools that teach it are too
>>bleeping lazy to change CS1 to a practical language.  
>	Pascal was deloped as and should be used as a teaching language.  
>It's primemery goal is to create readabul, stable code.  It is not built 
>to do anthing serouis

Nevertheless Apple managed to write the MacOS using Pascal.

	- Dan Eldred

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