high school programming & python

[Robin Becker]

In article <937300939snz at vision25.demon.co.uk>, Phil Hunt
<philh at vision25.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <PsnD3.17$ri1.778 at newsfeed.avtel.net>
>           nospam at bitbucket.com "Phil Mayes" writes:
>> Alan Daniels wrote ...
>> [context: suitability of Python as a first language in schools]
>> >Other than that, the only disadvantage is the student will get spoiled
>> >and not be willing to step down to less productive languages. :=)
>> 
>> This is, as you imply, a fallacious argument; if carried to its logical
>> extreme, we shouldn't teach C because students will be spoiled and not
>> want to use assembler.  In fact, assembler spoils people for machine
>> language :-)
>
>Machine language! You young people today don't know what hardship
>is... when I were a lad, we had to manually patch the ALU using
>plug boards to change the logic.
>
You were lucky to have plugboards. We had to key things in with a bunch
of switches.
-- 
Robin Becker