Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1532

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:56:55 +0000 (UTC), David Wagner

Forget all that. I recall a while back reading a story about a (at least in his circles) famous linguist who would give his lectures in different languages and expect his students to follow.

Why don't you do the same to challenge your students. Use C oneday PL-I another, Algol, Cobol, Fortran and so on, oh and also a variety of buttemblers

Your ability to do this really depends upon whether your are an insbreastute of higher learning or simply a vocational school cranking out C programmers with access to a nomenclature as a surrogate for knowledge

Digital had a neat tool, SDL (Software Description Languge) which allowed you to declare data types in a language independent manner, and running those decls through the tool would generate includes for 10 different languages, allowing you to freely mis language modules. Now that would be a great buttignment, they have to write a program with subprograms in all the languages link and execute, and they have to do it under VMS not Unix.

I personally think that C is not a good language for a teaching environment. The level of abstraction is akin to buttembly language so the student never gets above the canopy.

Tom

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