From: Chris Pine <chris@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T18:18:16+09:00
Subject: Re: my mother wants to code?

On 10/13/05, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:
> Chris Pine wrote:
> > other language offering all that, and thus no other language better to
> > start with.  (Though I am obviously totally biased, so take all of
> > this with a grain of salt!)
>
> Grain of salt indeed..  How about BASIC and/or Pascal?

Well, if you look at the sentence *before* the one you quoted, I think
you see better where I am coming from:

  It's easy to use, it's fun, and it's a language you could
  continue to use professionally (especially in web-dev
  stuff).  I don't see any other language offering all that...

I don't see Pascal as "offering all that" (what percentage of
programmers use Pascal on the job?), nor BASIC.  (Unless you meant
Visual Basic or VB.NET or something... but I thought those were fairly
different languages?  Admittedly, I don't know much about the BASIC
world, but outside of Microsoft's versions, I didn't think too many
people were building professional products out of it.)

So I still stand by what I wrote (but I'm also still totally biased...)

Take it for what it's worth,

Chris