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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with
Date: 1996/08/14
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Tim says

"I would say about 95-98% of the applicants get this question
wrong.  I have had people I respect give the "obvious" wrong answer,
though, so it's mostly a matter of not really thinking about it
before answering."

I can't see an obviously wrong answer, only a trivially right one, so
perhaps you should tell us the mysterious obviously wrong answer. I tried
this on a few people around here and they were all as puzzled as I was.