scripting languages

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:00:46 -0700
Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:

> I definitely would have no qualms about teaching a child to program in
> FreeBASIC or even FreePascal, and later have them learn C or Java.
> Then again, Python would be an even better choice for teaching.

Nah, start them out right. PDP 11 assembler.

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