the interesting and the sad

[kris]

torhu wrote:
> 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.

Just passing some info along ~ wasn't trying to make a point, tohru :)