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  2. Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.edu
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  4. From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
  5. Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov12.035044.3964@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  7. Followup-To: comp.edu
  8. Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
  9. References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1623@airgun.wg.waii.com>
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  11. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:50:44 GMT
  12. Lines: 21
  13.  
  14. In article <1623@airgun.wg.waii.com> brett@bambi.wg.waii.com (Marc Brett)
  15. writes:
  16. >In Queens University, Kingston (Ontario), they used a home-grown
  17. >language NIAL for their introductory class in computers.  This was
  18. >around 1984.  (Where is it now...???)
  19.  
  20.      Last I heard (one or two years ago), Queen's had switched to
  21. Turing.
  22.  
  23. >it was unfair to the students to
  24. >have to learn a language they would never see again.
  25.  
  26.      If learning a language was the point of the course, that course was
  27. poorly designed.  Besides, computer languages are usually fairly easy to
  28. learn as long as the paradigm is clear.
  29.  
  30.                 Marc R. Roussel
  31.                                 mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
  32.  
  33. P.S.:  I have redirected followups to comp.edu since I don't see what
  34.        this has to do with programming.
  35.