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UNIX/scripting/programming courses?



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.

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