Re: Fw: Re: junior-programming
what about ruby? I've been reading the ruby book, and it's syntax is
really clean (with niceties like number.abs() and string.length()).
It looks like it would be an easy language to start with. And, it is
interpreted so there is no compile, run, oops, change, recompile,
repeat cycle.
On 15 May 2001, at 10:56, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 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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