Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Jan 07 2024 02:04 pm

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: tenser to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 08 2024 03:51 am

 te> Honestly, at this point, I can't think of a good reason to teach C at the
 te> collegiate level.  Intro classes should arguably be in a functional
 te> language of some kind; I like Scheme, but Racket would be better; barring
 te> that, OCaml or even SML would work well.

I haven't heard of Scheme, Racket, OCaml or SML..  Are those fairly new languages?  I think one of the reasons for teaching C (or C++), at least at the time, was that those languages were in fairly wide use in the industry.  I've been hearing they're being used less, but at the same time, they're still fairly popular languages due to the amount of older code in existence. And I've heard C is especially popular for embedded software.

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