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From: jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon)
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Subject: Re: introductory language
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Date: 10 Apr 90 11:55:34 GMT
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davee@hpcll14.HP.COM (Dave Elliott) writes:
[stuff about intro course taught in C]
>    5) The students that graduate are having an easier time finding jobs.

This is a difficult question to answer, but how do the successful students
of the C course compare in job performance with the successful Pascal course
students?  Perhaps employers are using C to "wash out" marginal programmers
since C requires some discipline to use.
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