Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Can Turing survive?
Message-ID: <201@becker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 07:48:07 GMT
References: <6854@june.cs.washington.edu) <1147@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1147@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
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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.

	I beleive such a book exists, written by John Holt if I
	remember correctly. I don't recall the name or publisher,
	but it's the standard intro text at the University of Toronto.

|Are colleges and universities still teaching intro to programming in 
|Pascal?  Really? About what percentage, I wonder.
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Humber College just switched from teaching Pascal to C last year in their
Computer Engineering section. They also replaced VMS with BSD 4.3 Unix
on their 750. The Business sections still teach Cobol, I beleive...

Cheers,
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