25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
8:31 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexis Kotlowy" <thrashbarg at kaput.homeunix.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:10 PM
Subject: Computer Science - Re: teaching programming to kids
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:14:55 AM Liam Proven wrote:
What is the big deal, don't people try out new things AFTER they graduate
college? If you only used Java in college then you are going to just use
that forever?
Meanwhile, a dot-comrade of mine, a chap
who's doing CompSci at the U
of Missouri, had never heard of Lisp Machines and has never used
anything that isn't a member of the C family. Seems like a sad thing
to me, that.
http://kaput.homeunix.org/~thrashbarg/computerscience.png
'nuff said. Though it'd depend on where you study it. I know the Uni of
Adelaide is mad for Java.
Alexis. 