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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Dennis Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: first language
Message-ID: <395@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 08:44:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 08:44:01 1987
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in article <5268@utcsri.UUCP>, moraes@utcsri.UUCP (Mark Moraes) says:
> 
> In article <405@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes:
>>  1.  Availability:  .....
>>  2.  Low cost:  .....

Seems to me we're losing sight of the object of the exercise: to teach
students how to program.  If "bean counter" criteria are used, we'll all
be coding cobol!

-- 
Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.hypercube
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell