Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: First Languages (yet again)
Keywords: apl
Message-ID: <343@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 22:23:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.343
Posted: Sun Feb 28 17:23:48 1988
References: <4022@ames.arpa> <2400002@otter.HP.COM> <932@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <2781@omepd> <619@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1154@zen.UUCP>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group
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In article <1154@zen.UUCP> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
>
>I personally feel that the teaching of a non-procedural language in the first
>year of a computing science course is an excellent idea.
>
	My first programming language (ignoring a lousy course on
	PL/C) was APL, taught extremely well, and to this day, I
	consider that APL course to be a *turning point* both for my
	CS education and my career. [Probably lisp would have had a
	similar impact, provided that the dialect is scheme].

	Of course, after APL, learning to live (years later) with UN*X 
	and C was much easier. :-) 

oz (once-warped-by-apl)


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