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Fyodor,
I'm overwhelmed and very pleased to hear of the
use of Component Pascal in Russian high schools.
I am also gladdened to hear that CERN is using
the language and would be most interested to
learn who are the one's actually doing the
programming (my background is in physics).
Keeps us informed and thank you for telling
us this news.
-Doug Danforth
(p.s. my quote was from part of an chinese proverb)
ftkachov{([at]})nowhere.xy
>
>
> > use it to augment teaching of speech recognition
> > algorithms (If you plan for 10 years, plant a tree;
> > If you plan for 100 years, educate a child
>
> Well said.
>
> BlackBox is currently being rather aggressively
> promoted in Russian for Russian high schools
> via the web site http://www.inr.ac.ru/~info21/
> The audience spans the space from Lviv to Magadan
> and from Murmansk to Israel :-)
> OM reports that the number of requests for educational version
> from that space has risen noticeably.
>
> The most interest comes from the oil rich and industrial regions
> of Siberia with a strong education system.
>
> The marketing slogan for education is,
> Component Pascal/Oberon is the best introduction into the
> "standard programming paradigm" (Oberon/CP, Java, C#).
>
> BlackBox is being happily used in an experimental course of
> modern programming at
> the physics dept. of the Moscow State University.
> The course is being well attended (including the faculty).
>
> Two offers to repeat the course came from physics depts. of
> universities to the west of Eastern Europe.
> Unfortunately, these can only be satisfied to a limited extent.
>
> Another important point is that BlackBox is perfect for "non-professional"
> programmers, i.e. people from other professions who need really serious
> programming (like physicists ... linguists) but who cannot afford
> to struggle with complexities and limitations of other platforms.
> The number of such people, and their programming sophistication
> grows, adn the fact is being underestimated by the "professional"
> computing world.
>
> Some significant software is being written in BlackBox
> for physics projects related to LHC/CERN (2006-2020).
>
> (Incidentally, physicists keep asking if a Linux version is available.
> A Linux grid is being offered for unlimited computations
> but I cannot use it.)
>
> Cheers
> Fyodor Tkachov
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