Re: Documentation and pointers

From: [at]} <René>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 12:07:49 -0400

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Lack of tutorial documentation is indeed a huge handicap for adopting
Component Pascal and the BCF in the academic community. The main reason
for not adopting Component Pascal as a first language in teaching
programming, is the lack of documentation and of publicity. I can only
explain the atrocity of choosing instead script languages, or other
sharply# obscure notations, in terms of the almost complete anonymity of
Component Pascal.

I suggest that we, Component Pascal programmers, and BlackBox users and
developers, should make an effort and submit papers to publications like
ACM's SIGCSE, for letting the academic world know the virtues of this
wonderful language. The only article publicized there was that
pioneering one by Stanley Warford in the nineties. We must help more
decidedly in taken the road that has not been taken.

Greetings, René Dorta.
Universidad de Carabobo. Valencia. Venezuela.


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