- Wirth not pragmatic??

From: F.V.Tkachov <"F.V.Tkachov">
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:52:04 +0400 (MSD)

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> That's the way universities have ever been: they tell you right from
wrong.
> That's the way Wirth was. And notice: that's not based on pragmatism ...

I beg to disagree: Wirth is a very pragmatic person, a born engineer.

I found all his pronouncement about programming and teaching programming
(e.g. that debuggers should be abolished in the class) to be very sound
from a purely practical viewpoint.
Of course, acquiring the discipline he advocates requires an effort of
training. But it pays off handsomely in a very pragmatic sense.

Just consider how substantially harder it proves (to be?) to port BlackBox
compared with the Classic Oberon.

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