Minimal skills

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 08:05:33 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> Kurt Hackenberg writes:
> 
> >  I guess you could start with C, and maybe add C++ later. That's if
> >  you want to learn to program, which is a big project. There's also
> >  an argument that a beginning programmer should learn some newer
> >  language.
> 
> 	I am now accepting rhetorical nominations for a useful
> programming language better suited for teaching a beginning programmer
> of at least average intelligence.  At the moment the only other
> candidate is Pascal, <sarcasm>beloved on account of its vast code
> base</sarcasm>. 

Speaking from my own terrible experience, Pascal is a
collection of things you need to unlearn when you start
understanding what _really_ happens. :-)





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