Re: Testing job applicants

[hnlute@optcamel.com (Howard N. Lute)]

In article <slrn7t3cot.ar3.liam@bigfoot.sasquach.gen.nz>, 
liam@sasquach.gen.nz says...
> On Sun, 05 Sep 1999 00:35:56 +1200, Bruce Hoult <brucehoult@pobox.com> wrote:
> > 
> > It's astounding to me that preople are today teaching raw beginners C++. 
> > And they're flounderng.  C++ is the best and most practical language with
> [snip]
> > unforgiving.  Java would be better (in the absense of being able to buy
> 
> The Victoria University of Wellington, NZ is now teaching Java to the
> first year students.  I think Java sucks as a first teaching language
> as its syntax is nearly as bad as C++ syntax.  But it is better
> than C++
> 
> 		Cheers, Liam
> 
> -- 
> 	Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer...
> 	...she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel.
> -- 
> 
I think that ANY programming course should BEGIN with machine 
language, then assembly...any higher order languages should 
follow, to do otherwise leads us to bloated inefficient code 
and buys us nothing.
friend,
Lute
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