[geeks] Introductory programming language?

[Vintage Coder]

I know what it was intended for. I also know structured programming is only appropriate in academia.  But apparently I'm part of a small minority. 

It's all well and good all the COBOL bashing but there's a difference between coding as a professor and actually getting work done that people are willing to pay for. COBOL and SQL (and IMS DB) have made orders of magnitude more money and careers than any of Wirth's fantasies. 

 
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On 1 sep. 2011, at 13:03, "Vintage Coder" <vintagecoder at aol.com> wrote:

> IIRC Modula was Wirth's tacit if not explicit admission that Pascal was not
"enterprise ready".

Nor was it ever intended to be. It was designed to teach structured
programming.

.tsooJ
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