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Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC degree track
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 08:09:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 08:09:34 1987
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Keywords: language, CSC 101, intro
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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!