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Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 13:10:26 -0400
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!)
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At 07:10 AM 7/3/98 , Eivind Eklund wrote:
>[snip]
>
>I'd use the same language to teach an 11-year-old as a 19+ year old.
>I'd preferably choose an interpreted language with fairly small and
>regular syntax; TCL, Scheme or Eiffel (the last only if I could run a
>'melting ice' environment) seem like good choices.
>
>[snip snip]

Am I the only one who would teach people assembler as a first language,
especially young children who are so bright and learn so quickly that they
learn entire languages in a matter of a few years?
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