On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Rustom Mody
About programming pedagogy:
| Rob Hagan at Monash had shown that you could teach students more COBOL with one semester of Scheme and one semester of COBOL than you | could with three semesters of COBOL
I've seen similar claims with Java and Python in place of COBOL and Scheme. My thoughts on that are that Python already has little of the cruft that isn't really about programming. But it sounds to me like you aren't so much simplifying the language as hiding parts of it, which I'm not sure buys you much.
You cannot do programming without syntax Syntax is irrelevant to programming So what is relevant?
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