Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Digital Man
From : tenser
Date : Wed Jan 17 2024 04:22 am

On 15 Jan 2024 at 06:18p, Digital Man pondered and said...
 
 DM>   Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
 DM>   By: tenser to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 08 2024 03:51 am
 DM> 
 DM>  >  pF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach data
 DM>  >  pF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assemble
 DM>  >  pF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead of
 DM>  >  pF> spending time learning another language.
 DM>  >
 DM>  > Honestly, at this point, I can't think of a good reason
 DM>  > to teach C at the collegiate level.
 DM> 
 DM> C++ (not C) appears to be the collegiate programming language of choice
 DM> these days.

Really?  God help us.

 DM> It was Java for a while, C before that, Pascal before that,
 DM> and FORTRAN before that.

Yeah.  My sense observing those classes was that
Pascal was used in the lower year classes, then C
for things like compilers, OS, etc.  At one point
I saw a COBOL class offered.  *shudder*

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