Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL))

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/14/06, Kevin D. Clark <kclark at mtghouse.com> wrote:

> I'll leave it to others to opine which language is best to start with.
> There seem to be lots of opinions.  But, one thing that I find to be
> really weird are CS programs that start with Java but never teach C!
> Ever!  I have a good friend who went through a program like this.  He
> is very very smart, but he doesn't know a lot about C.  I find this to
> be very...weird.  Then again, he knows a more about Java than I do.



Well, there was a time when *everyone* learned BASIC.  Then the CS/Math guys
learned Pascal.  Engineers learned Fortran.  Business learned Cobol.

Further on for CS was a language class that taught lisp/scheme, snobol, C,
and some other language I can't remember.

Some would find a CS program that started with C and never taught Pascal to
be odd.



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