Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Object oriented languages Message-ID: <2115@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 21:33:37 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2115 Posted: Wed Jun 13 21:33:37 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 07:07:48 EDT References: <1979@mit-eddie.UUCP> <268@harvard.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 32 > From genrad!wjh12!harvard!kevin Tue Jun 12 14:24:17 1984 > I do not believe that the advantages of teaching SCHEME outweigh > the need for more resources or the fact that the other courses > here (and the jobs that the students want the experience for) > use more traditional languages (like C). I think the couple of > weeks exposure the students now get is enough to at least let > them see that there are other ways of programming; the details > can wait for a higher level course. I have taken both the Harvard and the MIT introductory computer science courses. After the Harvard course (which I took while in high school -- it taught Macro-11 assembly language, Lisp, and C), I felt that I had learned how to engineer small programs. Sort of interesting, but I still wanted to be a physicist. After I took the MIT course, I felt that I had learned a great deal of beautiful, clean, and powerful concepts. It was a joy taking the class, and every assignment was bliss to work on, even if the computer was overloaded and I had to do my work at 3 am. It converted me from physics to computer science. You'd think that Harvard, the liberal arts school, would go for the beautiful concepts, while MIT, the technology school, would go for the down-to-earth engineering. But life is strange. One of the things that makes MIT such a great school is that there are many people here who realize that beautiful concepts and engineering can complement one another. -- -Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?