[prog] C++ Inheritance - just some musings

[Sue Stones]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 19:32, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> How very odd.  I'd only ever been told that you needed to be good at
> maths for CS.  Learning languages really doesn't have much to do with CS
> as far as I can tell, considering that any natural language is going to
> be much more irregular than any computer language.  And I'm not sure
<....>

Well maybe its along the lines of those who think Maths ability goes with an 
ability to learn languages.  It certainly doesn't in my case.  Although 
someone once told me that it is a different approach to maths.  Those with 
language ability can *learn formulae*.  I am of the type that has to let 
everything become intuative.  That is I have to fully understand it, then the 
formula just comes from thinking about it logically.

Also I am talking about the 70's.  In those days people carried around piles 
of paper cards, so perhaps CS was taught diferently back then.  It is not 
that functional programming wasn't aroud, but perhaps it wasn't well 
understood.


sue