J. Brian Adams wrote:
The single recurring problem is an objection to using it
by a minority of the CS students. Although they have never used it
before, for some reason they immediately consider it a toy language
and thus do not want to be bothered learning it. Most do though, and
of those, several have commented about being glad to be able use it in
other classes and even later when they begin research in graduate
school.
Moler himself had the very same problem when introducing his new brand
"Mat-Lab" software. Particularly, he noticed that CS students didn't
like it, but engineering students did. That was in 1979. Some things
don't change easily :-)
http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/news_notes/clevescorner/dec04.html
(last big paragraph, after the Tektronix 4081, 1978)
-javier
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