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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or
 Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/18
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Date: 1996-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Tim says

"Because I've found that people tend to stick with the first
[dare I use the word] paradigm that they are introduced to.
Everything else they learn will be compared against the first
thing they learn"

How true is this? Certainly true to some extent, and is of course
the fundamental reason why it is a huge mistake to teach assembly
to begin with.

Still lukcily this can remain a moot issue, no one I know of seriously
proposes teaching CS this way, and no school I know of teaches CS this
way, so we do not have to worry about it.