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- From: henley@eng.auburn.edu (James Paul Henley)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Scheme
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:07:05 GMT
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- In article <34175@adm.brl.mil> stone@hilbert.math.grin.edu (John David Stone) writes:
- >
- > Pontus Gagge writes:
- >
- >> What we *really* need is obviously Turbo LISP (or even
- >> better, Turbo Scheme). Does anyone know when Borland will release
- >> version 1.0? ;-)
- >
- > Don't even joke about it. One of my biggest fears as a teacher of
- >computer science is that Borland will trash Scheme as a language for
- >learning programming the same way they ruined Pascal and tried to ruin
- >Prolog.
- >
- >------ John David Stone - Lecturer in Computer Science and Philosophy -----
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-
- When I took Pascal in the computer science department, I came away with the
- distinct impression that it was not useful for anything that I might need to
- actually do, so I went back to BASIC. Then I discovered Turbo Pascal, and
- found that it was useful for everything I needed to do. I teach the
- introductory computer programming course in this department, and I would not
- dream of using anything other than Turbo Pascal. Of course when I talk to
- the Comp Sci profs, they sneer at TP, but I think that is because it runs
- on PC's, and of course PC's are just toys.
-
- Ruined Pascal? No, they gave it to the lowly masses. I really have problems
- with your pompous attitude in Comp Sci.
-
- James P. Henley Jr.
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Auburn University
-