Re: [school-discuss] First Programming Language

[Roman Suzi <rnd@onego.ru>]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Doug Loss wrote:

>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.

I used to like APL. Even wrote an interpreter for it. But now
I like Python. Probably, it is possible to have 1:1 converter
between Python+Numeric and APL. Aplython. Unbeatable technology!

I wanted to disclose this at April 1...

Doug, do we have Frequently Discussed Topics on SchoolForge
by any chance? ;-)

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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