On Tue, 8 May 2001 09:11:46 +0200, "Tarjei T. Jensen"
<tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:

>But none of these are any improvement on Ada or sufficiently different to be
>of paedagogic value. Well, perhaps Delphi for a windows project to
>familiarize student with windows programming.
>
I was taught Pascal in the early days, in the tradition set by
professor Edsger W. Dijkstra et al., and it didn't hurt me.
Pascal can be a very paedogogic language, was indeed designed to be
just that. And I still use Delphi, even like it.
Scheme was a fourth or fifth language for me and I like it, but I
wouldn't deem it proper for a first course. Procedural programming IS
a low level business, but it helps us to see that computers do what we
tell them, not what we want them to do.

Ronald Schr�der