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- From: dexam@another.gun.de (Thomas Fischbacher)
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- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:41:42 +0100
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- On 10.01.1996 [21:05:19] [amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira)] wrote the following lines about
- "Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?"AM> dschrage@indirect.com (Dan Schrage) wrote:
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- AM> If the point is to develop healthy programming habits, every beginner
- AM> should start with Scheme. Just see Abelson and Sussman's book.
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-
- For learning how to specify a problem in a way that it can be
- "understood" by a machine, a purely functional language (Gofer, ML,
- something like that) seems to be the best choice, I think.
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- But with functional languages, you don't get a feeling of how the machine
- works. :)
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- regards, Thomas Fischbacher - dexam@another.gun.de
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