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<p>From my experience, CS professors like to teach in Java because
it's a "pure" object-oriented programming language, unlike C++
which is just C with object-oriented extensions,and still allows
you to use C syntax. <br>
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<p>Prentice<br>
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<p>On 12/3/18 8:25 PM, Lux, Jim (337K) wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">My
daughter took the CS101 class at her liberal arts college
and it was Java.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Maybe
that’s because it’s an employable skill – An enormous amount
of day to day business software development is in Java.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As
an Art History major, it’s not like she needs
multidimensional arrays. Good, bombproof string
manipulation for her Latin grammar/translator project was
more useful. So Fortran and C are not big winners in that
application development space. Java, Python, Basic would all
have served adequately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jim
Lux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(818)354-2075
(office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(818)395-2714
(cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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Beowulf [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org">mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stu Midgley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 02, 2018 11:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Prentice Bisbal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pbisbal@pppl.gov"><pbisbal@pppl.gov></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Beowulf List <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org"><beowulf@beowulf.org></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">indeed...
and then Java... what were people thinking?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:06 PM
Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <<a
href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>>
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<p>Fortran was the second programming language I
learned, behind BASIC. I took Fortran classes in high
school, and then was required to take Intro to Fortran
for Engineers class freshman year of college. As a
result, I took multi-dimensional arrays for granted.
Years later, I tried created a multi-dimensional array
in C. What the hell, C? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Stuart Midgley<br>
<a href="mailto:sdm900@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">sdm900@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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