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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody?
Date: 1999/09/23
Date: 1999-09-23T11:40:33+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfkl97oz.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37E92BB5.3C2DB9BB@mitre.org

"Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> writes:

|     The problem with learning BASIC as a first programming language is
| that the limits it imposes on the way people think can persist for
| years.  It might even convince someone to LIKE programming in C++

The major problem is GOTO and the code this leads to. 

-- 
Preben Randhol     [randhol@pvv.org]    [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] 
 "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team 
  of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, 
  how many of you would disembark immediately?"             -- unknown




  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-10  0:00 Computer Programming for Everybody? Ted Dennison
1999-09-10  0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-10  0:00 ` Raymond Calande
1999-09-11  0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-12  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-12  0:00   ` mitch
1999-09-13  0:00     ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13  0:00         ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-13  0:00       ` John Duncan
1999-09-13  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14  0:00         ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-13  0:00     ` Mike Hall
1999-09-14  0:00     ` tmoran
1999-09-13  0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-09-13  0:00   ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-14  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
     [not found]       ` <7ronav$shf@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
1999-09-22  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23  0:00           ` Preben Randhol [this message]
1999-09-23  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-27  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27  0:00             ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-14  0:00     ` Wes Groleau
     [not found]       ` <Pine.HPP.3.93.990915162218.958A-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
1999-09-22  0:00         ` Wes Groleau
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