Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 15 2024 18:18:06

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: tenser to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 08 2024 03:51 am

 >  pF> That makes sense, the PASCAL class was used mostly to teach data
 >  pF> structures and algorithms, then everything else was in C, assembler or
 >  pF> LISP. In retrospect I'd rather just jump into C or C++ instead of
 >  pF> spending time learning another language.
 >
 > Honestly, at this point, I can't think of a good reason
 > to teach C at the collegiate level.

C++ (not C) appears to be the collegiate programming language of choice these days. It was Java for a while, C before that, Pascal before that, and FORTRAN before that.
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