Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 09:42:08

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Jan 05 2024 06:33 am

 Ni>> I took a few CS programming classes in college in 1999-2000, and they
 Ni>> were teaching C++.  I ended up going into a software engineering program.
 Ni>> I never had any Pascal classes in college.

 PF> That's really strange. Most CS curricula when I was starting out had a
 PF> structured language class as the first class, it was sort of a weed-out
 PF> class and taught in Pascal. They later switched (in my case) to ANSI C.
 PF> This was before c++.

That's interesting..  For the software engineering program I went into later, for the first term, they didn't even have us do any programming, but they went over software design concepts (including object-oriented design), and the next term, they went right into C++.

Nightfox
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