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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 21:18:03 GMT
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- In article <10820@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- >In article <34175@adm.brl.mil> stone@hilbert.math.grin.edu (John David Stone) writes:
- >>
- >> 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.
- >
- > As a daily user of Standard Pascal, I couldn't disagree with you
- > more. While I don't support each and every change Borland has
- > wrought in its Pascal compilers, I would choose it over other
- > compilers w/o a moments hesitation. I can't think of a bigger
- [...]
- > Borland has done little to change the actual flavour of the
- > language of Pascal (except with the recent addition of Object
- > Oriented Extensions). You can use as much or as little of the
- > additions that have been provided, and any standard pascal source
- > will (with only minor massaging) compile and run. Ten times in
- > the interval required to even get an executable on any other
- > platform.
- >
- > Perhaps, from a teaching perspective, your criticisms are valid.
-
- NOT!!! ^
-
- > I for one am glad that Borland considered the rest of us, though.
- HEAR HEAR!!
-
- In the programming course that I teach, we use Turbo Pascal. I spend the
- first half of the course covering *Standard* Pascal, and I don't have to
- point out but a couple of deviations in TP. Then we launch into the TP
- specialties and that is when the students really start to get into the
- course.
-
- James P. Henley Jr.
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Auburn University
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