On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Arthur wrote:
Joshua Zucker wrote:
noticeable minus if in the early days of the course I had to talk about import, and dot notation, and so on ... to me it feels like being forced into a Java/OOPish mindset for how to structure a program, instead of being able to use functional programming or even just plain old C-like style. I think I'm only talking about maybe the first week of a course here, but still, that first week can do a lot to affect people's impressions of the language or even of programming as a whole.
Is it reasonable to expect Guido to design his 100 year language around a one week problem?
Is it reasonable to call it a one week problem if it happens three times a year for dozens of instructors and thousands of students? -- Paul Gries Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science University of Toronto