Steve Holdoway wrote:
IMHO, if you're going to learn a 3GL, then any one ( as long as it's structured ) is fine... maybe even Fortran ( which is what I learnt on 30 years ago! ). The most important thing is that the teacher is totally familiar with it, and able to teach both the syntax and good programming practices.
Sure. Programming concepts are mostly transferable from language to language, except, perhaps, odd cases like haskell, or even worse, prolog.
I'm not so sure, though, that a 3GL is the best place to start programming - too close to the machine IMHO.
Cheers, Carl.
