SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Aug 17 11:46:56 2001

> Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
>
> >> But then is Pascal that bad?
>
> >Bad? Bad at what? bad *for* what?
>
> We were discussing beginner's languages and alternative to BASIC.

I do think it's less likely for someone to pick up bad
programming habits if they start with Pascal, but that's
not an absolute, just a probability thing.

> I think the interpreter makes BASIC unequalled pedagogically.

If you like the immediacy of the interpreter environment,
you should try programming in Smalltalk-80. Typing an
expression, selecting it, and choosing DO IT (or PRINT IT)
from the context menu is almost as fast as

        ?"This is a test"

-dq
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