the interesting and the sad

[torhu]

kris wrote:
> you decide which is which:
> 
> http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds10-4/firstlang.html

That guy dismisses Pascal as not being object-oriented, while the most 
used Pascal dialects are, like Turbo (Object) Pascal, Delphi, etc.  'He 
also claims that OO first appeared in Smalltalk in the 70's, while it 
was really Simula in the 60's.

I guess your point is that he would have chosen D instead of C if he had 
been aware of it?  I agree, but I feel that D relies too little on 
pointers and too much on the GC to be used for teaching the basics of 
memory handling.  I doesn't force people to be aware of what actually 
happens.  But you should probably teach more than one language anyway.