Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro,net.research,net.cse Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey Message-ID: <247@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 16:04:57 EST Article-I.D.: opus.247 Posted: Mon Mar 19 16:04:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:19:59 EST References: <3501@utcsrgv.UUCP> <10@sask.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 13 <> > ...It seems to me that one of the roles of universities is to lead, not > to follow blindly... AGREE! And it's high time that universities started leading more... It can work. Remember that Pascal got its start as a taching language, because Wirth found no suitable language for teaching. As a result of its use in universities, both Pascal and the concepts it contains have become widely known. [I find it quite gratifying that I no longer have to explain the idea of a discriminated union, what it's for, how it's implemented, etc. All I have to say is "...like a variant record" and the light comes on.] -- {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd