Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!dali.cc.gatech.edu!ken From: ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Oberon compiler and references Message-ID: <29074@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 15 May 91 18:35:16 GMT References: Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Organization: The House Of Fun Lines: 29 In article Modula2 List writes: >I am a teacher of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous >University of Mexico. This semester, I am going to teach an introductory >course in Computer Science, and I am planning to use Oberon. Does anyone else think there's a problem here? "I'm a prof. I wanna use new-and-whizzy language X, in an *intro* class. This semester. Don't have a complier or anything. But not to worry, I'll find a free version through the net. I'm sure it'll be of the highest quality. Enjoy the class..." Having watched an intro to assembly class go through the agony of dealing with a buggy, immature, FTP-able, PD macro assembler (not even a compiler), I've got some real problems with this approach. Give your class a break. It's one thing to play with new langauges and experimental compilers in upper level classes, but the kids in the intro stuff should be writing programmes, not fighting bugs and quirks in an immature compiler (and, in the case of Oberon, a pretty new language period). Pick a langauge that has a solid compiler that has been around for more than a few months. DISCLAIMER: I speak only for me, as a student whose been there... -- ken seefried iii "I'll have what the gentleman ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu on the floor is having..."