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- From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek)
- Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:26:20 GMT
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- Here at U of I they're starting us out on MIT Scheme, a dialect of
- LISP. What was surprising what how easy it was to learn this language - there
- is not much to be learned in scheme - it is a languange with little dogma.
-
- I suppose that's the reason they chose to start us out that way -
- because the learning curve for people thrown into pascal would cause them
- to concentrate more on the language than on the computer science.
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