[Edu-sig] re: Python Programming: An Introduction to ComputerScience

[Arthur]

Kirby writes -

>>VB sucks.

>This part I agree with, and any outrage attaches to this, more than to any
>presumption regarding the impropriety of proprietary programming languages.

For education related purposes - I argue these issues are one and the same,
or certainly correlated.

I would not make the same argument for business purposes. VB is useful in
business. So are lots of other inanities. 

I happen to consider myself a businessman. So I say this without rancor.

Art