Tangential anti-educationist rant (was: what is easier to learn first?...)

[Owen Corpening]

funny, I thought C was a cinch, very easy to learn and teaches good habits.

owen

Cameron Laird wrote in message
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>In article <XUDB4.2253$nI2.45719 at ptah.visi.com>,
>Grant Edwards <nobody at nowhere.nohow> wrote:
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>>more Python.  I'd definitely go with Python.  C is for OS
>>kernels, device drivers, and embedded work.  It really oughtn't
>>be taught to beginners or people who just want to write an
>>application.  C is low-level and unsafe: the programmer's got
>>to do way too much of the housekeeping, and there are countless
>>ways to hang yourself before you've even gotten enough rope out
>>to accomplish anything. -- but at least the semantics are
>>farily simple (assuming you know some assembly language and how
>>compilers work).
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>It pretty well captures my impression of
>institutional education that US high
>schools commonly teach C (and C++!) as a
>first programming language.  I find that
>typical of the mental abuse they thought-
>lessly perpetrate.
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