Re: Fw: Re: junior-programming
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:13:37PM +0800, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Ben> > I tried both, bwBasic is an interpreter, shell and editor. Yabasic
> Ben> > just receives a file written in basic and interpret it.
> Ben>
> Ben> I'm not attached to one or the other, so unless someone can furnish a
> Ben> good reason why Yabasic should be used instead of bwBasic, I will change
> Ben> to bwbasic.
>
> Are they conflicting? If not why not including both?
After much lively debate on irc involving Hilaire, Derek, Vladimir and
myself (and with some additional input from standers-by on #debian-devel)
I have decided not to include BASIC at all. My reasons are twofold:
1. BASIC is not a good beginner's language.
2. As much as we would have liked to include it, I think our own bias
towards BASIC is that we started with that language. Let's set
nostalgia aside and think what is best for the children.
junior-programming 1.1 will omit it, then.
That leaves us with logo, python, and drscheme. Is this sufficient?
Ben
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