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- From: tblancha@evolving.com (Todd Blanchard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.mac
- Subject: Re: Pascal or C++?
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- Date: 23 Jan 1996 00:26:52 GMT
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- Shane Kershaw (skershaw@scu.edu.au) wrote:
- : In article <4cqcnj$387@pegasus.interpac.net>, stacys@isis.interpac.net
- : (Stacy Sherman) wrote:
- : >C should never be used as a first programming language, especially at
- : >high school level. I got my CS degree in '91 and they were teaching most
- : >of the courses in Pascal and were just starting to use C. Even now, the
- : >first few courses are still taught in Pascal.
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- Well, I teach CS at Univ of Colorado Denver and we've started to do our
- data structures class using C++. Its more strongly typed than C so its a
- bit safer to learn with.
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- RE: Pointers are difficult - yes they are, but all truly powerful concepts
- are. For teaching algorithms, it is hard to beat C.
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- When the only hammer you have is C++, the whole world looks like a thumb.
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