From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-03 14:21:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!news.algonet.se!algonet!pepsi.tninet.se!not-for-mail From: Stefan Skoglund Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 23:18:07 +0200 Organization: Telenordia Message-ID: <3B1AA98F.9D03E6DA@ebox.tninet.se> References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d6b6e$1bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87snihxiwc.fsf@frown.here> <9dbi83$sji$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AFACCA0.303A79AF@baesystems.com> <87oft0pi6x.fsf@frown.here> <3B11AC75.9A0E896D@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: du67-241.ppp.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: zingo.tninet.se 991603039 13721 195.100.241.67 (3 Jun 2001 21:17:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@algo.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 2001 21:17:19 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: sv,en,en-US Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8044 comp.lang.lisp:11275 Date: 2001-06-03T21:17:19+00:00 List-Id: Larry Elmore wrote: > It certainly beats the hell out of C/C++, Fortran, Cobol or Basic! Of > course, you'd teach programming in Lisp with a subset of the language. > It'd be even more likely to confuse them if you hit them with the full > complexity of Ada right off the bat (and with all of C++, you'd likely > scare off 99% of them). Avoid side-effects and LISP gets much simpler.