[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Diana A. Clarion]

Give 'em APL, and see what happens :o)

Strong typing gets on my nerves from time to time, especially when I forget to
cast at some critical point and end up with a 'sizeof' off by a factor of
eight.  Other than that, it's a decent thing...

DAC

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:55:50PM -0400, Chris Ott wrote:
> 
> Diana A. Clarion wrote:
> >Hey, BASIC is a fine first language.
> 
> I agree. Teaching beginners a strongly-typed language like Pascal, which 
> is what they taught when I was in college, makes no sense at all. It's 
> hard enough to understand the idea of "the computer does what you *tell* 
> it to do, not what you *want* it to do". Adding data types on top of 
> that makes everything needlessly complex.
> 
> Chris
> 
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