On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Mike yearwood wrote:
> My point was that a fundamental aspect of programming - modularization
> - is lost by giving someone a "grounding" in the language. They learn
> that a program is a single monolithic procedure instead of a set of
> discrete building blocks.
I don't think that follows. A "hello world" level program better
damn well be a single block. Then when they advance to more complex
programs, the notion of functions/subroutines come into play. Nobody
should ever teach them that all programs are single monolithic
procedures.
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