5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
12:08 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Perhaps everyone should follow the trend though and
talk about c,
cobol, pl/i, snobol, simscript, basic, jovial, dos, vms...
When I first started teaching (FORTRAN, BASIC, beginning DOS), I had a
long commute, and a lot to learn. One of my students who is blind gave me
copies of books on tape - there is an ENORMOUS selection of amateur
readings for the blind. I put a copy of the the COBOL textbook (Olson
and Price (text written by OUR instructors)) into the car tape player
with auto-repeat, turned the volume fairly low and let it drone on over
and over and over, until I knew the wording of the book.
When I did that with K&R, it was disconcerting at first to hear constant
references to "capsee" - the readers for the blind voice the capitalization.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com