From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-05-29T21:03:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language?

Rick Denatale wrote:
> This is not to say that it's a bad think to learn C, or Latin.  But I
> firmly believe that for most people this should come later as a way to
> expand understanding of how higher-level languages are implemented and
> extended, not as a first step to inform how one should think about
> higher-level languages.

It's a question of whether you learn top-down, or bottom-up. Different 
people have different learning preferences.

Traditionally technical subjects have been taught bottom-up in academia 
("building on a firm foundation"), but there are very good arguments for 
the top-down approach too.
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