Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Jan 07 2024 02:00 pm

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Jan 06 2024 09:43 am

 Ni>> That's interesting..  For the software engineering program I went into
 Ni>> later, for the first term, they didn't even have us do any programming,
 Ni>> but they went over software design concepts (including object-oriented
 Ni>> design), and the next term, they went right into C++.

 PF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach data
 PF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assembler or
 PF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead of spending
 PF> time learning another language.

I think I'd prefer that as well.  And they used C to teach data structures and algorithms.  I thought that class was interesting.

Nightfox
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