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Re: Results: finished teaching one Dylan course



dauclair@hotmail.com wrote in message <8gfqnv$mvj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>"A New Approach to Object Oriented Programming" course finished May 10,
>2000 at the Northern Virginia Community College, U.S.A. with excellent
>reviews from the students.
>
>The students (with the exception of a senior citizen auditing the
>course) were professional programmers (mostly C/C++ programmers, but
>one Smalltalk one).  Their primary goals were 1) to learn more about
>object oriented programming in general, 2) to learn about the
>functional programming style, and 3) to learn about multimethods.


So what was their reaction to Dylan?  Presumably these were
people motivated to try something new and different?  Is there
anything you learned that might persuade less motivated people
to rethink their ideas about O-O programming?






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