On 22 May 2011 22:26, bearophile <[email protected]> wrote: > Jesse Phillips: > > > We all know D would make a very good first language, and I want to > provide some material that makes this possible.< > > This is a very interesting experiment, thank you for writing it. > > Regarding languages to be used as first language for adults or near-adults, > I think there is no very good language for this purpose (for children the > situation is better, there are many Logo variants, some graphical languages, > etc). And even if you invent a language very good for this purpose, probably > no one uses it, there are no libs and ecosystem for it, so it keeps being a > mostly useless and buggy toy. I don't see many ways out of this situation. > > Bye, > bearophile >
Well about learning a programming language as your first; I really think its worth considering that several universities (AU atleast) introduces their students to programming, using java, simply because it offers several pedagogical learning tools alike; Greenfoot, that makes the introduction more of a game than really an exercise. I honestly think, it would make D more attractive as a first language to learn, if it had these 'pedagogical' teaching tools. -- // Yours sincerely // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
