Verily I say unto thee, that ml2mst spake thusly:
> Gambas is considered a educational tool for kids, learning their
> first programming steps. Pretty much like "the turtle program" in the
> 1980's.
>
> BASIC is for kiddies :-p
IMHO BASIC is not even fit for educational purposes, since it encourages
the extremely bad habits of unstructured programming. Pascal and SML are
far better teaching languages, although I'd be disinclined to encourage
their use beyond the classroom. Frankly I think it might be better to
have them dive into the deep end on day one, with C/C++, and start as
they mean to go on.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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