[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: VMS documentation

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In article <6235f4fc$0$702$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>On 3/17/2022 7:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 3/16/2022 8:55 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-03-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 3/16/2022 8:09 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>> On 3/16/2022 7:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>> I think it would have been difficult to find a language easier to 
>>>>>> learn
>>>>>> than Pascal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basic on the various DEC systems.
>>>>
>>>> Wirth, Dijkstra etc. did not like Basic.
>>>>
>>>> But yes - Basic is also an easy language to learn.
>>>
>>> Easy to learn but it doesn't mean you are teaching students the right
>>> things for when they need to start writing production code. :-)
>> 
>> Teaching something that is easy to learn and teaching something
>> that is "right" to learn are two different goals.
>
>And both has changed since Wirth's and Dijkstra's time.
>
>New languages that are easy to learn has been introduced.
>
>And the classic strong static typed structured procedural approach as
>the right one has been supplemented by many other approaches.
>
>One reason being that few today believe in same approach to
>all types of production code.
>
>I don't think the two gentlemen would like JavaScript, Python,
>PHP, R etc. but the fact is that those languages thrive today.
>
>Maybe not in code that controls an airplane with 300 passengers,
>but there are plenty of other areas.

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