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- From: amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:45:44 GMT
- Organization: Number Nine Visual Technology
- Message-ID: <4ddsm3$p4e@sundog.tiac.net>
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- fish0144@gold.tc.umn.edu (Dennis Fisher) wrote:
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- >amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira) wrote:
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- >>If the point is to develop healthy programming habits, every beginner
- >>should start with Scheme. Just see Abelson and Sussman's book.
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- >Ain't this thread ever going to die off?
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- Ain't reactionary squares going to die away ?
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- >I'm familiar with scheme, trac, basic, pascal, c, and c++ and I would
- >NEVER suggest scheme or trac to even my worst enemy!
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- I wouldn't suggest Scheme to my enemies; it'd make them too powerful.
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- There are only two powerful programming language paradigms in the
- world today: Lisp and Forth. No, I mean three - add Prolog to the lot.
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- _alberto_
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- *Imperative languages suck.*
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