Re: Testing job applicants

[andyl@azaal.dircon.co.uk (Andy Leighton)]

On 5 Sep 1999, Byron Desnoyers Winmill <wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>Bruce Hoult (brucehoult@pobox.com) wrote:
>: It's astounding to me that preople are today teaching raw beginners C++. 
>
>Though one interesting idea used at my university, until a year or two ago,
>was to use a little know language called Meranda (?).  A couple of my friends,
>who were mathematically inclined, took the course and enjoyed both the
>instruction and playing with the language.  But that was then . . .

You were probably the functional language Miranda.

It used to be quite popular in the UK along with ML.  I would think that
a lot of the colleges over here that did use a fpl to teach programming 
have moved over to Haskell now.

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