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From: sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
Subject: Re: Comparison of languages for CS1 and CS2
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Someone wrote:
>>> I am currently an undergraduate in Brandeis University's CS department,
>>> and I can say that there is no obsession with either UNIX or C.  In fact,
>>> there is a lot of emphasis (at least in terms of course offerings and
>>> faculty expertise) on AI and LISP, and there isn't even a course teaching
>>> C++.  The only OO course is in Ada.

And (If I didn't totally confuse the attributions)
  jeff@aiai.ed.ac.UK (Jeff Dalton) replied: 
>
>>Not enough emphasis on Lisp that you've lost the out-of-date habit
>>of writing it "LISP".  :-)
>

You had better tell this to Patrick Winston, Guy Steele, and the 
authors and publishers of most of the LISP books I have on my 
shelf (and a couple of newer books I got from the Library recently).
 They all use "LISP" in full caps on their covers, and 
<LARGE-CAPS>L</LARGE-CAPS><SMALL-CAPS>ISP</SMALL-CAPS> 
in the text itself. Being that plain ASCII lacks the ability to 
easily express the full range of typographical conventions, I think 
we should forgive someone who has learned Lisp from *books*, rather 
than at the feet of the usenet gurus, for not being up on the latest
trendy 'inspeak', as I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that Lisp
is a language of such ephemeral trendiness and fashion that anything
learned about it five years ago is surely out of date and obsolete.  :-)


[ Sorry Jeff - I know I'm capable of being as anally pedantic as 
 anyone else - however I think your comment was *misplaced* and 
 non-constructive anal pedanticism. ]

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