[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:11:24AM +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> Manchester uni used to start CS undergrads off with SML, which is a
> functional (well, mostly...) language. I thought it a really interesting
> way to teach programming fundamentals. It may not be a hugely practical
> language for writing real-world applications in (although certainly
> possible...), but the aim was more to teach data structures, algorithms

Whoa there ... Some of us are lucky enough to write ML programs for a
*living*.  I'd rather pull my fingernails out than write something in
Java again.

Rich.

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