Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Which language to teach first? Message-ID: <5594@ficc.uu.net> Date: 8 Aug 89 16:47:04 GMT References: <2552@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <6204@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <6204@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) writes: > What a joke... how do you handle abstraction without packages? > How do you separate specification from implementation? How do > you enforce the security of an ADT without limited private types? [...exception handling, concurrency, generics, ... ] What is a beginner in CS101 (or whatever your intro to CS course is called) doing any of that for? First you crawl, then you walk, then you run. ADA for introductory programming is like Air Jordans for 1-year-olds. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"