And after BASIC they taught students with Pascal. Now that was a step forward.
Having programmed in everything from assembler to project plans (*really* high level...), programming languages are like real human languages -- they demand that you adopt the mind set to properly communicate in that language. The mind set for assembler is radically different than the mind set for shell programming. Or LISP, or C++, or FORTRAN, or COBOL for that matter. This is why there are so many languages, because some bright spark thinks he or she has a new twist on the programming paradigm.
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Date: 2005-02-03 06:39 pm (UTC)Having programmed in everything from assembler to project plans (*really* high level...), programming languages are like real human languages -- they demand that you adopt the mind set to properly communicate in that language. The mind set for assembler is radically different than the mind set for shell programming. Or LISP, or C++, or FORTRAN, or COBOL for that matter. This is why there are so many languages, because some bright spark thinks he or she has a new twist on the programming paradigm.