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Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 16:04:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 16:04:57 1984
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> ...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.]
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