Re:Teaching Ruby to High School Girls
by philwelch on Thursday August 27, 2009 @05:01PM
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Which is ironic because colleges switched to Java because Java is used in the "real world".
Of course, Java with all its class-and-interface scaffolding adds too much accidental complexity too. It's not a matter of higher-level, it's a matter of verbose. Scheme is a high-level language but it's still "the hard way" in a very important sense.
Of course, Java with all its class-and-interface scaffolding adds too much accidental complexity too. It's not a matter of higher-level, it's a matter of verbose. Scheme is a high-level language but it's still "the hard way" in a very important sense.