Re: A Quesiton of Numbers


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Re: A Quesiton of Numbers

by Abigail-II (Bishop)

on Jul 10, 2002 at 17:09 UTC ( [id://180807]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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A reasonable alternative for BASIC? No, I don't think there is. Nor do I think BASIC is reasonable. But I do think there are good candidates for good starter languages: Python, Modula, Haskell, Java, and probably Eifel as well. Not BASIC, not C, not C++ and certainly not Perl.

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Re: Re: A Quesiton of Numbers
by ignatz (Vicar) on Jul 10, 2002 at 17:57 UTC

I know that I'd hate to start a beginning class trying to explain to people the point behind public static void main(String[] args). I'm tempted to throw out Ruby, but it's something that I've only casually glanced at.