From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 21:57:36 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <856189aa-fa00-4960-929e-174f352310ad@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nonlegitur@notmyhomepage.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 19:57:37 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3c49b6cea03230a7d49f184d3ed1814e"; logging-data="21029"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NX1ZeuQun8hAroFfBdfwzVBPLE+3LP3c=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vytzWMAcPGt7dbk6E+AA3aMAZm4= In-Reply-To: <856189aa-fa00-4960-929e-174f352310ad@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: de-DE Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53518 Date: 2018-07-02T21:57:36+02:00 List-Id: On 30.06.18 20:04, kouaoua16@gmail.com wrote: > but in C and C++ to fist year students Whichever way you decide to go, perpetuating the misconception of: C and C++ being closely related languages is going to add effects to programs written in C as well as to programs written in C++, in that they'll not be written in idiomatic C or idiomatic C++. Outside of sales talk---if teaching programming does establish non-commercial foundations for thinking---the phrase "C/C++", i.e., "C Slash C Plus Plus" should raise the alarm. And 'A' is not 65! -- "HOTDOGS ARE NOT BOOKMARKS" Springfield Elementary teaching staff