Aaron Sloman (A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
: Are you offering to re-write all the teaching documentation we use?
: (Not just Sussex local teach files, but teaching material developed
: elsewhere, into which a lot of work has gone.)
: That would be very kind of you.
: If not, the people who now try using Pop-11 for teaching and who
: find that the language doesn't work as the teaching documentation
: says it does, will certainly not want to use it. They will decide
: that it is a language associated with sloppy people.
Not to mention the fact that there is no current textbook for pop11. The most
commonly used one (Ramsay et al.) doesn't even cover lvars it's that old.
Hacker types like me are happy to use on-line documentation, but a lot of
students (probably the majority) prefer to have a text-book for some unknown
reason.
At the moment the most complete single work on pop11 is Aaron Slomans primer
which is really only intended for programmers rather than beginners, and now
that is out of date too!
Richard
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