[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bill Gunshannon <bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

(snip)

> I wish they still taught COBOL at a later point and probably in a special
> course, but I see no reason to cover Fortran in anything but a general
> Programming Languages Course where you show them differnt languages and
> the pardigms attached to them but no one becomes proficient.

Maybe, but Fortran today isn't anything like the one from 25 years ago.
 
> Pascal was always a good choice, afterall, isn't that what Wirth created
> it for?   And, wether I like it or not, students today must learn the
> OO paradigm and that most likely means Java which is what they use where
> I used to work and I imagine most other CS Departments.

How about Algol W? (I believe the W is Wirth.)

-- glen