[OT] partialy I was wondering what suggestions for programing

[david nicol]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 09:58, DCT Jared wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:01:25 -0800, Kendrick-LUG wrote:
> > I never saw a specific book on
> >fundamentals of programingl.
> 
> I can't imagine one exists. How can you teach fundamentals
> of programming without examples? And if you're going to use
> examples, why give examples from a dozen languages?

If your point is to teach theory, you can choose a language that
is good for teaching theory -- or even invent one!  Pascal was
invented as a teaching language for instance.

Scheme is an excellent language for teaching theory, that dialect
of LISP was what the programming languages text at UMKC used in the
early nineties.

There are also
some people roaming the earth in a frustrated daze because they
learned programming theory in Simula and they now have a better
grasp of the theories than any of the C++ programmers they must
communicate with.

Perl is a deliberate attempt to create a creole, and as such it
succeeds fairly well.

And allegedly, according to slashdot, chimpanzees prefer C to Java.

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david nicol
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