Absolutely! They should be taught how to program and debug first, then the constructs of individual languages.
Many of us have programed on all sorts of machines from the IBM mainframe, to the IBM PC, 8080s, z80s, Univac 1050-II, Xeon, Arm, etc. and different languages from all the of different assemblers, PL/I, COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, REXX, C, JAVA, et.al. And can move freely between them. But alas, even company trained systems programmers AREN'T systems programmers... They are installers, administrators, etc. that can't write a lick of assembler code ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
