[Chicago] python intro for 13 yo -- suggestions?

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:22:06PM -0500, Michael Tobis wrote:
> Now, it might be a different story if you started out with Perl ....

That's inconceivable!  One has to be an experienced hack with several
languages under one's belt before one is prepared for the hodgepodge
glory of Perl.  I seem to have missed it at the vulnerable stage (I was
working on a Xenix/386 box at the time, and if Perl had been ported to
that platform's benighted tool chain - based on a version of MS's C
compiler - I might have fallen in love with a "better AWK than AWK". 
But that was not to be...).  I suppose something similar might explain
my lack of enthusiasm for Rexx, though in that case it may be more that
I wasn't recovering from JCL, never having fallen into that pit.

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