Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

[Adriaan Renting]

In addition, for and while loops are pretty universally found in all
program languages. It is therefore an essential part of material
supposed to teach programming.

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>>> Daniel Dittmar <daniel.dittmar at sap.corp> 06/28/05 11:39 AM >>>
gatti at dsdata.it wrote:
> List comprehensions, however, *are* the basic control flow; loops are
> much more verbose and they should be used only when necessary.

List comprehensions are probably a bad idea for entry level programmers:
- for and while loops are much easier to debug as you can insert print 
statements everywhere
- list comprehensions don't allow you to break complex expressions into 
several simpler ones by using local variables, everything has to happen 
in one expression

Daniel
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