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  1. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!decuac!hussar.dco.dec.com!mjr
  3. From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
  4. Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov9.204158.23544@decuac.dec.com>
  6. Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: hussar.dco.dec.com
  8. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
  9. References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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  11. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:41:58 GMT
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  13.  
  14. >The question came up:  what computer languages are used in the
  15. >first year programming courses in other colleges?
  16.  
  17.     I had the choice of PDP-11 assembler or Pascal, but that was
  18. before the C juggernaut.
  19.  
  20.     Nowadays, I'd like to see colleges teach Modula-3 or some
  21. modern programming language, with real support for objects, threads,
  22. typing and data hiding (C++ need not apply).
  23.  
  24. mjr.
  25.