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From: jont@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jon Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Which language to teach first?
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Date: 21 Aug 89 12:10:46 GMT
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In article <1501@shuksan.UUCP> scott@shuksan.UUCP (Scott Moody) writes:
>
> ... Try explaining to you future employer that you were
>taught to 'learn' other languages easially when they are looking
>for expert Ada programmers. The first thing they do is send
>you to an Ada course anyway.
>

... and you will perform very well on this course, beacuse you
will have been given a sound theoretical grounding with which
to learn the language(s) of your employers choice.


Jon Taylor.
Queen Mary College
Uni. of London.
jont@uk.ac.qmc.cs