Aaron.nospam.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman See text for reply
address) wrote:
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>Apologies if I have gone on too long.
thanks, that was nice.
it actually looks like to be a better choice for our universities
software engineering course (plus Compilers, AI and such) where they
currently use ML (SML) and then in the second year java.
They want to touch lisp and ML, so poplog would be fine choice.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/courses/popinfo/primer/node10.html is good url.
With Poplog people could learn a decent editor, a decent choice of
languages, a big library and some taste for the real-world as well,
which they lack with SML now and to which they are overexposed with java
then in the second year. and the ML freaks could continue using the
poplog ML. the docs are really fine! you really see the grounds of being
used as a teaching language at sussex.
maybe students will understand the difference between CLOS and C++/java
finally then.
what about software tools, like the debugger, cross-referencer and such?
under NT, without X, it is a pain.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/news/faq/autolisp.html
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