On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:58 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote: > > I would rather learn with C than BASIC or PL/1 > > I don't know. I learnt programming with BASIC, and I turned out ok. C > isn't going to teach you logic as well as a higher level language. You > get lost in the details of the language instead of learning how to > program.
C is a legend. Respect it. > Python and Basic are good languages to learn with because they abstract > out the internals of the machine and data types from the programmer. > Once the student has developed strong foundations in logic, he can learn > anything. It is ironic that most people feel that people who learn BASIC are very used to writing _bad_ code - spaghetti code they call it. Fear teh GOTO!! -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi P.S.: BASIC was my first language too. Just for the record. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
