>
>
> Basic was supposed to be about introducing beginners to programming. I
> would worry that the likes of Visual Basic would teach/encourage
> students into bad programming practices.
>
>
I may complain about Java (Joy! Another Verbose Algol), but when I compare
it to some of the stuff that's been created to give folk an introduction to
programming, stuff that one imagines ought to be made appealing... *shudder*
BEGIN
Oh wonderful, COBOL(Capitalisation of Boilerplate Oriented Language), or
PASCAL or something!
VERY VERBOSE
artificial separation of declaration...
LOTS OF REPETITION
... and definition
CAPITALISATION of almost everything in sight
LOTS OF REPETITION
END VERY VERBOSE
REPETITION, LOTS OF IT
END
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