From: Daniel Nugent <nugend@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T18:46:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as First Language

I agree, I was just being flippant (mostly).

I do sort of wish that when I was just starting someone had told me
straight up the sort of things I mentioned right there.  Understanding
the differences between functional, procedural, declarational, and
object oriented programming models has been haphazzard(at best) in my
education.

I just think that it's possible to really get at the core of what
"Computer Science" really is without arduously teasing the nuances of
it out over the course of years.

Heck, what do I know.  Maybe we should just have kids read all the
back archives of Lambda the Ultimate :D

On 2/24/06, Chris Pine <chris@pine.fm> wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Daniel Nugent <nugend@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think they should teach kids Lisp/Scheme, C, the Lambda Calculus,
> > and computer organization at the exact same time.
>
> "They"??  Have *you* ever tried to teach kids programming?
>
> I humbly suggest starting with Ruby.
>
>
> > The ones that come out of it alive will be Masters of the Universe.
>
> The ones that come out of it alive would have been Masters of the
> Universe, anyway.
>
> :)
>
> Chris
>


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-Dan Nugent