Re: [school-discuss] First Programming Language

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Jennifer Dozar wrote:

> Python is a good language to start out on.
> Please don't get into some weird flame/"oh i learnedthis first" kind of
> list. cause i have had quite anough of that on another list. just a
> bunch of older guys saying learning Basic or Fortran for an 8 year old!

Sorry, Jennifer, I just can't resist.  APL! APL!  The ultimate cool, exceedingly
useless language!  Write entire programs in one line!  Use arcane symbols not
available on a regular keyboard!  Confuse your friends (if you have any left after
playing with APL)!

For the humor-impaired, don't let your students even _see_ APL code until after they
have some feeling for programming.  APL code can resemble line noise even when it's
well-written.

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