3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
9:42 a.m.
On 12/3/2014 10:29 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Very true.
A lot of the problem [,if there is one] is "baby duck syndrome".
For example, students will stick with what they learned in school -
BASIC was developed for TEACHING programming; as such, it was a fairly
good choice for being built-in to generations of personal computers.
When Pascal was developed for TEACHING programming, we got a whole
generation who had learned on it, were never told, or never
accepted, that it was intended for TEACHING, not for real world
applications, and proceeded to use it when they got out into the real
world, with mixed results.
When C was the language that was taught, we got generations of C
programmers.
I say classic C is good. Remeber back in 73 all one had was a few k
of 16 bit memory for small computer. BIG IRON ran *REAL* programing
languages. 83 you got MSDOS and all the tweaks to get C to run at all.
93 you got C+ and *MORE* improvements and 32 bit gcc. 03 you have
all sorts of flavors.
Now, will we be getting generations of SCHEME
programmers?
A well designed language (and compiler) will excel at what it was designed
for, and is not likely to be the best possible choice for other purposes.
PL/1 anyone?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
Ben.