stephen the great wrote:
>
> >
> > > People I talk to in the industry go "Py what" every time I mention
> > > Python.
> > >
> > > just my $00.02 worth.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Geoffrey Robertson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently preparing a 1 semester programming course for
> > > > beginners. (on Linux) And I'm in a quandary as to what
> > > > to teach.
> > > >
>
> If you care about your programmers teach them Delphi it is easy to learn OO
> using visual pascal and it will help you ease them into C++ as the next
> general OO language after which they can choose some elective like Perl or
> Python (only prob is that
> Delphi doesn't run under Linux yet) but Kylix (visual pascal for Linux) is in
> the pipeline soon and then watchout programming peeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Delphi is nice. Australian Personal Computer (I know, the Ed Wood of CD
collection compilers) has free Delphi 4 standard edition on its latest
Cd. I've looked at it, it's very nice, doesn't appear to be
crippleware. I'm really impressed with the Object Pascal language, it's
like a cleaner C++, a better designed Java. I'm really looking forward
to Kylix. I just hope I can afford it (perhaps if they have student
pricing...)
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