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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Can Turing survive?
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Date: 6 Jan 89 05:06:44 GMT
References: <6854@june.cs.washington.edu)
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From article <6854@june.cs.washington.edu), by pattis@june.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis):
) 1. Give away the compiler to educational institutions, or make it very cheap.
) 2. Write an Introduction to Programming book that (a) surpasses all the
)      Pascal books in clarity, (2) really shows off the language; that is,
)      one can't just translate the "best" Pascal book into Turing - instead
)      the book must be reorganized along the lines of Turing's strengths.


Are colleges and universities still teaching intro to programming in 
Pascal?  Really? About what percentage, I wonder.