[Python-Dev] Hats off to them!
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik@effbot.org
Sat, 12 May 2001 01:14:47 +0200
> "Hats off to them. It's an extremely well designed language. It's
> object orientated from the get-go. They've really succeeded there,"
> he says, and commends it as the ideal teaching language. That
> used to be BASIC, of course"
reading on, I'm not sure why BASIC ever was the ideal teaching
language:
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/gates.htm#tc11
"One of the nice things about this BASIC is it has this so called
direct mode. So you can PRINT 2 + 2. It prints the square root
of ten"
Cheers /F