[Python-Dev] Hats off to them! (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@effbot.org
Sat, 12 May 2001 01:14:47 +0200

"Hats off to them. It's an extremely well designed language. It's object orientated from the get-go. They've really succeeded there," he says, and commends it as the ideal teaching language. That used to be BASIC, of course"

reading on, I'm not sure why BASIC ever was the ideal teaching language:

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/gates.htm#tc11

"One of the nice things about this BASIC is it has this so called
direct mode. So you can PRINT 2 + 2. It prints the square root
of ten"

Cheers /F