teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC

I once had the fortune to work under a manager who was, as far as I can tell, a good manager. I don't have wide enough experience to tell whether he was _really_ good, but he certainly stands out in my memory. Perhaps I overestimate his quality. But he was good at running interference; he made the annoying parts of my job that didn't really have anything to do with what I was nominally there for vanish - that alone puts him a major step up on my other managers. He was technical enough to converse intelligently about what I was doing - he probably could have done, or learned to have done, most of it himself, if he'd had the time and inclination. He slapped me down when I deserved it. I don't know whether this particular branch of the conversation amounts to comparing my selection bias with your selection bias, or whether I was just lucky, or whether I'm overestimating his quality, or what. But my experience leads me to think the good manager is not a mythical creature. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B