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Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming?
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> One should learn *many* programming languages, if one is serious about
> programming.  But one should not start with BASIC (or C, or assembly).

I agree with the rest of the [snipped] post. But, why not assembly?
After all, it does allow a person to try and experiment with any
programming approach physically possible on the target system.

Sure, using assembly for any sort of production or even student
work these days may be impractical, but we're talking about
learning here, correct?

So, assuming assembly does allow you to address a small problem
at hand, what's wrong with that as a learning tool?

And [to be a little bit naughty :)]  isn't it true that the people who
developed the higher-level languages originaly started in assembly,
if not downright machine binary code, some time back in the past?