Re: database systems and organizational intelligence
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:57:48 GMT
Message-ID: <40b8b393.4132081_at_news-read3.maxwell.syr.edu>
On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:11:47 -0400, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>A little over 20 years ago, I was exposed to a little language called
>PASCAL. I really liked it, compared to COBOL, Fortran, and BASIC, and a
>lot of others. Maybe it's time for someone to do for the current state of
>the art what PASCAL did for 3GL.
Yes, it is time!
3GLs are during too much.
>PASCAL, you will recall, had as its prime mission the support of
>programming courses. Students were not learning, PASCAL, per se, They
>were learning how to program.
They were learning procedural imperative programming.
> PASCAL minimized (somewhat) the distractions
>to the learner due to the quirks and historical accidents in the existing
>3GL alternatives.
But it has plenty of quirks either.
> At the same time, a person who learned how to program
>well, in a learning evirnment, was well prepared, in theory, for whatever
>3GL they had to deal with in progressional life.
>So, what are programmers doing today?
The same as 15 years ago.
> More importantly, what are they
>going to be doing 5 or 10 years down the road?
The same as now.
Regards
Alfredo
Received on Sat May 29 2004 - 18:57:48 CEST