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If I ask another professor what he teaches in the introductory programming course, whether he answers proudly "Pascal" or diffidently "FORTRAN," I know that he is teaching a grammar, a set of semantic rules, and some finished algorithms, leaving the students to discover, on their own, some process of design.
Robert Floyd (1979) "The Paradigms of Programming" 1978 Turing Award Lecture. Communications of the ACM Vol 22 (8) p. 455–460 | ||
