From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-12-15T01:28:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Kids?

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:

> Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>> "Keith Nicholas" <keith.nicholas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> what would be good is something like KPL
>>> (http://www.kidsprogramminglanguage.com/) but built around ruby
>>>
>>>     
>> [...]
>>   
>>>> "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
>>>> not worth knowing."
>>>>   - A. Perlis
>>>>       
>>
>> => "Gah! Programming sucks!" }:-)
>>
>>   
> The only language that ever changed the way I thought about
> programming was LISP 1.5.

Are you sure?  I learned more from every language since Lisp that
changed my way about thinking.  It has been a lot *harder* to find
these languages, though...

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