4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
6:28 p.m.
On 3 Jan 2012 at 17:46, Dave McGuire wrote:
Logo is an interesting first choice...keeps things
interesting and
fun. I also agree with your last choice. But C#...teaching a
proprietary single-platform commercial language designed with vendor
lock-in as its first criteria, which came into being purely with the
goal of unseating another language, isn't a good idea at all to
present in academia, unless presented as a sidebar entitled "here's
how perversely greedy the industry you're about to go into can get".
I'm struggling to remember the name of a language I read about back
in the late 70s or early 80s. It was part of a "natural language
programming for the uninitiated" trend back then. It had statements
like:
TAKE THE THIRD THROUGH THE 17-TH CHARACTER OF MYDATA AND SHOW THEM.
The language allowed for considerable leeway in abbreviation and
tolerated lots of "junk fill" words.
Anyone remember this?
--Chuck