17 Aug
2001
17 Aug
'01
11:46 a.m.
Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
I do think it's less likely for someone to pick up bad
programming habits if they start with Pascal, but that's
not an absolute, just a probability thing.
> But then is Pascal that bad?
Bad? Bad at what? bad *for* what?
We were discussing beginner's languages and alternative to BASIC. I think the interpreter makes BASIC unequalled
pedagogically.
If you like the immediacy of the interpreter environment,
you should try programming in Smalltalk-80. Typing an
expression, selecting it, and choosing DO IT (or PRINT IT)
from the context menu is almost as fast as
?"This is a test"
-dq