[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: And another one bites the dust....

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-21, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Academics shouldn't be teaching programming languages, they should be
> teaching programming concepts.  If you know C or Pascal, learning 
> how to write the procedure division code in COBOL should be a matter
> of a couple hour's study.  Once you know the concepts, learning the
> syntax is easy.  (Frustrating, perhaps, because the COBOL syntax is
> so horrible, but easy.)
>

Syntax is only one small part of it. Understanding the reason for the
language is very important as well.

For example, you can write C code with Ada syntax by declaring everything
as Integer or you can learn the Ada type system and start using the Ada
way of thinking to model your problem using Ada's type system.

Simon.

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