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

[Dave Froble]

On 2/21/2022 2:34 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

Why does any of that have to be tied to any language?

Concepts and procedures is what is important.

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