Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Which language to teach first? Message-ID: <185@enea.se> Date: 17 Aug 89 21:32:14 GMT Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 18 Peter da Silva (peter@ficc.uu.net) writes: )Bill Wolfe (billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu) said: )) It is probably inadvisable to teach them [non-majors] any language )) at all; instead, a survey of user-oriented systems (Hypercard, the )) so-called 4GLs, and so on) would probably be more appropriate. ) )You have to be kidding. You're saying, here, that if you're not a CS )Major you shouldn't have any programming at all. Is that right? What )about people in scientific disciplines? Physicists don't have to )program? How about mechanical engineers? How about EEs? Being an Electrical Engineer to my degree and knowing what I'm working with, I'd say there is no difference to the CS majors. A lot of them will be involved in programming fairly large system anyway. At least as things works over here. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se "Hey poor, you don't have to be Jesus!" - Front 242