Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 23:16:45 +0000 (   )
From: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: Tom Breton <tob AT world DOT std DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Teaching a child to program in C
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On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Tom Breton wrote:
> 
> > Pardon me for making a suggestion that you may have already decided
> > against, but have you considered LOGO?  It's the only language I can
> > think of that is meant for a child.
> 
> Hear, hear!  There's nothing like LOGO to stimulate kids to explore
> the world rather than exploit it (do I sound old enough? ;-).

[Delightful part unfortunately snipped]

Readers like me who plan to initiate children into programming early, 
might like to read "MINDSTORMS" written by Seymour Papert who along with 
Marvin Minsky was one of the forces that produced LOGO: 
(I still use LOGO when nobody is looking ;)))