"retard" <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:55:29 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>
> Well, they have been teaching the Java i/o stuff to first year students
> for a while now. I completely agree that it's a bit too complicated for
> novices, but it's not the only bad thing:
>
> public static void main(String[] args)
> { System.out.println("Hello world!"); }
>
Correction:
class Main {
public static void main(String[] args)
{ System.out.println("Hello world!"); }
}
(Or something like that anyway, been forever since I touched Java.)
> Wtf. They used to learn Scheme:
>
> (print "Hello World")
>
> I guess the PhD requirement is a bit exaggerating. Of course you do need
> to learn some basic concepts first. OTOH I know a handful of C
> programmers who just don't get why their (unbuffered) i/o routines always
> perform badly, and use libraries instead.
