Re: cs520

From: Assaf J. Kfoury (kfoury@cs.bu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 14:04:47 EDT


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At the end of this week, when I will get back the
implementation part of Problem Set 1, I will know
how many different prog languages are used for
the implementation.

If students limit themselves to SML, OCaml, Scheme
and Java, there should be no problem for me. I will
start worrying if I get back implementations written
in languages such as Pascal, Ada, PL/1, Fortran and
other ancient languages.

Assaf

Yarom Gabay wrote:

> Hi Prof. Assaf,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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>
> Concerning the issue of implementation vs. conceptual work in CS520,
> then I think that implementation is important for deep
> understanding. So I would rather if the course has implementation
> work, on the other hand not such work that will consume all of our
> time. I think the best would be small assignment to give us the feel
> of few of the ideas. Furthermore, giving a degree of flexibility in
> choosing the language is an excellent idea, and I can only suggest
> making it simpler for you by defining a set of languages from which
> we can choose.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Yarom.



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