From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T14:16:55+09:00
Subject: Re: my mother wants to code?

Robbie Carlton wrote:

> I'm not sure that teaching someone both a procedural language and a
> functional language is a good idea, it seems like they will just end up
> confused.
-snip-

"At Oxford, we use Oberon as the second language we teach to our
undergraduate students (the first one is Haskell). We chose it because
of its cleanliness and simplicity, and because of the availability of
books that emphasize clear reasoning about programs."

http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/mike/obc/