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On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:01 pm, Grant M. wrote: > I would much rather see something like Perl or Ruby. These are languages > that you can get for free on pretty much any platform, and they are > somewhat forgiving. In that sense, I think the student can have an > opportunity to learn to program _well_, while still learning to just > program. Perl also offers a pretty straight forward entry-level syntax, > as well as the opportunity to learn a more advanced level of use. > My 2 cents, I don't want to get into a flame war, but neither perl nor ruby are classic programming languages. You raise a good point because I would think that anyone coming out of a decent CS program should be taught at least perl and python as well as either C, C++, or Java. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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