Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 13:10:26 -0400 From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) Message-ID: <199807031824.NAA13738@quark.ChrisBowman.com> In-Reply-To: <19980703131053.24570@follo.net> References: <rx4ogv7gsne.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> <19980703010915.6825.qmail@hotmail.com> <19980703124514.H358@freebie.lemis.com> <19980703022310.B4457@zappo> <rx4n2ar1ja4.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> <19980703111031.39367@follo.net> <rx4ogv7gsne.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
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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? -------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com http://www.ChrisBowman.com/~crb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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