From: Duane Crawford
Subject: research survey
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970702141935.16155K-100000@xsa02.gl.umbc.edu>

        My name is Duane Crawford, and I am a McNair Scholar at UMBC.  I
am a computer science major currently working on a research project to
find out which computer programming language is most appropriate for
beginning computer science majors.  I would like to know if you can spare
a couple of minutes to help me with my survey on computer programming
languages.  Can you answer the following questions and send them back to
me(·······@gl.umbc.edu) with your comments added. Please forward this
message to anyone who could help. 

1.  What programming language do you feel should be taught to first year
    computer science majors? 

    [ ] C [ ] Pascal [ ] ML [ ] Fortran
    [ ] C++ [ ] Lisp/Scheme [ ] Modula-2 [ ] Smalltalk
    [ ] Java [ ] Ada [ ] Modula-3 [ ] COBOL
    [ ] APL [ ] BASIC [ ] Prolog [ ] PL/1
    [ ] Other __________________________________________
    If your answer is other please fill in the blank. 

2.  Why have you chosen this programming language? 

3.  Your chosen language(s) textbooks are _________. 
    [ ] above average
    [ ] average
    [ ] below average

4.  Your chosen language is simple. 
    [ ] True [ ] False

5.  Your chosen language is practical (everyone uses it). 
    [ ] Yes [ ] No

6.  What programming languages do you have experience with? 
    
    [ ] C [ ] Pascal [ ] ML [ ] Fortran
    [ ] C++ [ ] Lisp/Scheme [ ] Modula-2 [ ] Smalltalk
    [ ] Java [ ] Ada [ ] Modula-3 [ ] COBOL
    [ ] APL [ ] BASIC [ ] Prolog [ ] PL/1
    [ ] Other __________________________________________
    If your answer is other please fill in the blank. 

7.  What is your occupation and where? 

    [ ] student
    [ ] professor
    [ ] other

8.  What programming language were you first introduced to? 

    [ ] C [ ] Pascal [ ] ML [ ] Fortran
    [ ] C++ [ ] Lisp/Scheme [ ] Modula-2 [ ] Smalltalk
    [ ] Java [ ] Ada [ ] Modula-3 [ ] COBOL
    [ ] APL [ ] BASIC [ ] Prolog [ ] PL/1
    [ ] Other __________________________________________
    If your answer is other please fill in the blank. 

9.  The textbook you used to learn this language was? 
    [ ] above average
    [ ] average
    [ ] below average
	  
10. What is the introductory programming language at your current and/or
    previous institution? 

    [ ] C [ ] Pascal [ ] ML [ ] Fortran
    [ ] C++ [ ] Lisp/Scheme [ ] Modula-2 [ ] Smalltalk
    [ ] Java [ ] Ada [ ] Modula-3 [ ] COBOL
    [ ] APL [ ] BASIC [ ] Prolog [ ] PL/1
    [ ] Other __________________________________________
    If your answer is other please fill in the blank. 

                                                Thanks for your time,
                                                        Duane

From: Hrvoje Niksic
Subject: Re: research survey
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <kiglo3pgsij.fsf@jagor.srce.hr>

Duane Crawford <·······@gl.umbc.edu> writes:

>     [ ] C [ ] Pascal [ ] ML [ ] Fortran
>     [ ] C++ [ ] Lisp/Scheme [ ] Modula-2 [ ] Smalltalk
>     [ ] Java [ ] Ada [ ] Modula-3 [ ] COBOL
>     [ ] APL [ ] BASIC [ ] Prolog [ ] PL/1
>     [ ] Other __________________________________________
>     If your answer is other please fill in the blank.

      [x] Other _Intercal_________________________________

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <·······@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it."                                    -- Donald Knuth