C0, an Imperative Programming Language for Novice Computer Scientists (2010) [pdf]

Re:C0, an Imperative Programming Language for Novice Compute... by khedoros1 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:10PM (#15503681)

Java was taught at my school because you don't need to learn much boilerplate to get started, the OOP parts of the language are relatively clean, memory management isn't manual,...and because they got a nice deal with Sun.

Python has similar arguments. It's a clean but powerful language that gets out of the way of learning basic programming, data structures, and such.

> But because once you learn Java, all you know how to do, is teach Java.

Why is that true for Java or Python, but not for other languages?

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Re:C0, an Imperative Programming Language for Novice Compute... by grayhatter on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:33AM (#15505673)

That was meant a joke about Java being a worthless language.

It's true about a lot of languages. But C isn't one of them. You can do a lot with C, you can do almost as much with with python and a lot faster as well. I can enumerate more, but those are the only two relevant ones.

With Java, you can get a job where job performance is measured in LOC.

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