[PLUG] Teaching My Son To Program

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Sep 26 14:41:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 14:11, Wil Cooley wrote:
> Okay!  I recant!  SmallTalk is the best choice!

Children should be taught assembly first, then APL, then Fortran, and
then M4.

If they can't write working sendmail configs by age five, swap them out
for a less defective child.

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