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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:57:00
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From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: Teaching a child to program in C
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At 07:26 PM 9/9/98 GMT, you wrote:

>BASIC is the world standard for introducing people to
>programming.  But sadly, even the very latest Basics
>still have a tendency to produce brain damage in users,
>either because of primitive design, or because of being
>totally non-portable - or both. 

PMFJI--

Thanks for your other comments, but the above REALLY HURTS. Have we
forgotten that the original purpose of BASIC and Pascal was TO INTRODUCE
PROGRAMMING? They were not considered to be production engines. (Please
correct me if that remark is false, but I understand it that way.)

So any severe criticisms of BASIC and Pascal are often no fair.

But I do appreciate your remarks.

Ralph