[Geowanking] Standard for Pseudocode

[Landon Blake]

Steve wrote: " That assumes that there is a progression in programming
languages.  
The reality is that us old farts got it right first time, and you  
guys are buggering it all up."

Good point.

Steve wrote: "I predict the younger generation will  
return to LISP and C..." 

I worked with AutoLISP for a while and really enjoyed it.

Steve wrote: ". I predict the younger generation will  
return to LISP and C after this current fallout over Java in education."

To which fallout do you refer?

Landon


-----Original Message-----
From: geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to
[mailto:geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to] On Behalf Of stephen white
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:22 AM
To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Standard for Pseudocode

On 22/01/2008, at 9:12 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
> I'm in my late twenties, and my languages of choice are Java and  
> Python.
> (I dabble in Ruby for customization of Google SketchUp.)
>
> I'm guessing the old farts are using C, C++ or maybe Perl?
>
> I wonder what younger people are using?

That assumes that there is a progression in programming languages.  
The reality is that us old farts got it right first time, and you  
guys are buggering it all up.

Back to the metal, grasshopper. I predict the younger generation will  
return to LISP and C after this current fallout over Java in education.

I worked at a University for a while. The students were abysmally  
crap. The courses didn't help. They did not graduate as programmers.

--
   steve at adam.com.au


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