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From: mg@asp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart)
Subject: Re: Repost of the Reid Report #12; CS1 languages
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Thomas Dunbar (tdunbar@gserver.grads.vt.edu) wrote:

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:  153 Pascal
:   73 Ada
:   51 Scheme
:   36 Modula
:   36 C
:   27 C++

The above are the top six languages, at least in terms of number of 
schools, which may not be the same as number of students.

This shows Ada doing very well, second only to Pascal (the traditional
choice) and ahead of the sum of C+C++.  Great!

I actually think Pascal is a reasonable choice, much better than C/C++.

My old college, Berkeley, switched from Pascal to Scheme.	:-(

	Mitch Gart
