Treffer: Technical Opinion.
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The article presents author's opinion on the computer programming language C. According to the author C language should not be taught to students of a decent university. Students can gain knowledge by going through books available in any campus bookstore. Students should be taught a wide variety of programming languages, Pascal, Ada, Modula 2, Scheme, even the sadly neglected Algol 60 and then let them loose on the C book of their choice. If they can read it and understand it without any help from teachers, they deserve to be computer scientists. The article also presents response from some authors who do not support the author's idea of teaching other languages before teaching the programming language C. Some claim that the position of C in industry is the very reason why they should not adopt C as a student's first language. If structured programming is accepted as a principle, then C is a bad language as structured programming limits variation.