QL-Mylink wrote, on 28/Jun/10 22:51 | Jun28:
[Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code - 'BASIC']
Stephen said -
"...
I'd disagree greatly with a lot of these arguments for people just
starting out. Line numbers, although a pain for advanced programmer, do
help novices think about order. Data types confuse things and make it
more complex than it needs to be. Let's face it, some real-world
languages don't have them as such, e.g. Perl.
In time, once the novice has grown out of the language they can move on.
It's not as if we're saying to banish them.
Other that the object code, I find Perl is very very similar in
structure to superBasic - ie inline and procedure based.
A knowledge of Basic leads straight into languages like perl.
The {} brackets and ; terminators are a pain, but languages like Python
even get rid of these.
Tony
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