Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!orchid!credmond From: credmond@orchid.UUCP Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC degree track Message-ID: <9773@orchid.waterloo.edu> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 08:09:34 EDT Article-I.D.: orchid.9773 Posted: Fri Jul 17 08:09:34 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 12:51:07 EDT References: <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> Reply-To: credmond@orchid.waterloo.edu (Chris Redmond) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 Keywords: language, CSC 101, intro Xref: utgpu soc.college:782 comp.edu:435 In article <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> shaffer@operations.dccs.upenn.edu.UUCP (Earl Shaffer) writes: > >Remember, this is the course that will teach all the bad habits we >learned from our first language(s)! (happy face) For example, I >still use "I" for counters because I learned Fortran first. (yech!) > And you think that's bad? (Another round of old-timer stories.) *I* learned my first bits of programming in a language called FORGO, which seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. I think it must have been a subset of FORTRAN II. Probably explains why I ended up majoring in English and political science!