Teaching Java and Perl

[Shevek]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:

> I think that marketing is the key term in this mail. Java has a good
> marketing team and is being taught in universities at the moment,
> nothing better than having a lot of fresh faced advocates being
> spawned at the end of each term.

Having taught both, I can say that I would far rather teach undergraduates
Java for many reasons. In fact, they'd probably be better learning
something even more restrictive and more trivial. That doesn't make it
good.

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Shevek
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