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[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Brian,

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Brian Borowski wrote:

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> There's so much choice, but the real thing is, you've got to have some
> commitment and initiative to see the thing through; this is really the
> important part of the whole thing.
>
> In my opinion, C is the ultimate, I like perl and java, (java when I need
> to), but as someone else has said, the technique, not the language is
> important.  The skills like algorithm design and its implementation are
> what you really have to learn, then you use the language to express your
> ideas in something the machine can understand and work with.
>
> Brian Borowski
I agree with these ideas completely. I guess the resources
available to a student today are quite different and more
powerful, allowing more choice, than they once were. Maybe I
better reconsider my plug for Basic in the light of that.

Chuck



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