Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!

["Jacob J. A. Koot" <jja.koot@wolmail.nl>]

Daniel,
Having read your recent posting I agree that we do not disagree :) I am
sorry to have misunderstood your message

Regards, Jos
Jacob J. A. Koot (Jos)
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Mahler <mahler@cyc.com>
To: Jacob J. A. Koot <jja.koot@wolmail.nl>
> Jacob,
> I thought plt-scheme was a users list,
> I will check. I apologize if I am wrong about this.
> However I do not think we disagree.
> The students did assembler for a tiny fraction
> of the course;
> the of remainder the year was Pascal and Scheme.
> They did just enough assembler to scare the hell out of them
> and not long enough to actually get good at it and like it.
> Thus it made them like the high level languages,
> and they had some grasp of how machines execute code.
> I believe this made it possible to give concrete
> explanations concepts which were otherwise
> to abstract *for them* to understand.
>
> Also the assembler they learned was an emulated toy;
> it only had 3 or 4 addresing modes very few instructions,
> subroutines, but no macros.
>
> I am advocating starting serious programming
> with a (very) high level language.
> I am just advocating giving the students
> a short bare metal hazing first to get them on your side.
>
> Daniel
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