Hello Neil!

Replying to a message of Neil Heller to Charles Angelich:

 CA>> I never really liked C++ and know very little about it
 CA>> other than it's an add-on to C as macros are to ASM. 

 NH> California State University now offers C as an optional elective
 NH> course.   However, the University will not offer any credit for the
 NH> course if the  student has previously taken a course in ANY other
 NH> programming language.   The only languages necessary to graduate in
 NH> Computer Science are C++,  ALC and Java.  However, Data Structures
 NH> and Compiler Design are both  required and both are taught in C. 
 NH> Hmmm... it seems to me that there's  something missing here.

Not at all.  At the University of Alberta, I was taught one language:
ForTran.  Other courses I took were in Pascal, C, and various other
languages, but they never actually taught the languages themselves - they
expected the Computer Science students to pick up the language on their
own.  To be honest, over 80% of the class never had a problem with this.

(Of course, I graduated in 97, just as Java was starting to hit mainstream
... the following year the university changed their courses to use Java
over Pascal.)

Darin

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