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Marin David Condic wrote
>My advice for a first programming language would be Ada (for a lot of
>reasons besides being my favorite language :-) followed by Pascal & maybe
>Modula-2. Save the other stuff until the students have progressed a little.

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.


Greetings,