From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T17:18:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Matt Gushee wrote:

>Unsurprisingly, the lessons made frequent references to C and C++
>concepts
>

I used to have to put up with lessons on how to do 2s complement 
arithmetic and the hexadecimal numbering system just so that I could be 
taught Pascal which kept you away from all that stuff. At the time I was 
teaching myself Lisp on a ZX Spectrum.