On 4/7/2020 12:31 PM, John Ames via cctech wrote:
*That said,* there are definitely some languages that are more
conducive to building these habits than others (and, within each
group, many that emphasize different aspects more or less strongly.) I
can't speak to COBOL as I've never had cause to get any experience
with it, but I would say that BASIC (as in, the old-school,
unstructured BASICs of the Bad Old Days) really does teach you a bunch
of habits that you end up needing to un-learn as soon as you start
working with better languages (not even *newer* languages - ALGOL and
Lisp both predate it.)
Where does a TINY PASCAL compiler written in BASIC fit?
Then you have Some posible better languges that never seem to make it
out of a LAB or UNIVERSITY. Like CLEOPATRA-comprehensive language for
elegant operating systems and translator design. 1974
(From the "Internet archive")
The Internet Archive has a lot of good books, that somebody distroyed by
convering to PDF's the wrong way.
