Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Iian Neill <[email protected]> writes:
And I suspect the fact that BASIC was an interpreted language had a
lot to do with fostering experimentation & play.
BASIC wasn't interpreted. Not always. What matters is not interpreter
or compiler, but to have an INTERACTIVE environment, vs. a BATCH
environment.
As for education, Python makes probably a good BASIC, even if I'd prefer
people be taught Scheme.
I still remember my first intro to computing course (6.251, Donovan and
Madnick, MIT 1971or2):
- 1/3 semester: Fortran, punch cards, IBM 360
- 1/3 semester: same again, but time sharing (360/TSO)
- 1/3 semester: same again, but using Multics time sharing
Gave a good perspective.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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