Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:56:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: crb@ChrisBowman.com (Christopher R. Bowman) Cc: eivind@yes.no, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) Message-ID: <199807040256.TAA05999@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199807031824.NAA13738@quark.ChrisBowman.com> from "Christopher R. Bowman" at "Jul 3, 98 01:10:26 pm"
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According to Christopher R. Bowman: > 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? I'm watching this discussion with considerable interest since my 32-month-old daughter is very interested in my computer. So far she's learned virtually all the ASCII character set, and in another few years I think that she will be ready for much more. What's the consensus on BASIC? Or FORTRAN? xcoral has a C interpreter that could be broken out... . Bright children really do absorb things quickly; just how quickly has amazed me no end! gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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