Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Kyle Spaans wrote:
[...]
There are also "CS for non-majors" classes in Python I believe. I
can't comment on upper-year project type things though, because I'm only
in my 2nd year. :)
C is good. Scheme I'm not so sure about. Maybe it's just my
curmudgeonly upbringing, but learning to code in a "standard compiled
language" has its benefits, if only separating the people destined for
coding greatness from the ones who should become accountants or lawyers
or something instead.
Eeekk... return of the language wars. They all have the same morphology
Person1: "My language is better than yours"
Person2: "Oh yeah? At least I use a real OS, CP/M!"
and its downhill in a cascade of responses from there ...
[...]
But this is an old and standard rant by now.
:)
But aren't they fun to rehash ?
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