Computers for children

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed Jan 13 01:04:34 1999

Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> I don't see anything wrong with BASIC as a useable language for kids. I
> don't know why people are so down on it. Ok, so it doesn't have

The main reason that *I* am aware of with people being down on BASIC is that
it, in a sense, encourages writing spagetti code (probably with the
inappropriate use of the GOTO statement.)
Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 01:04:34 GMT