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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody?
Date: 1999/09/23
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"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