On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:14:14PM -0400, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: > > Anyway, the whole post was meant more or less as an argument that a good > > educational tool should 1) be quick to start using (so not TP) 2) not > > contain parts that are not part of the course and detract too much. > > > > How come TP (turbo pascal?!) is not a quick start tool? (despite the fact > the old dos application will have problems running or a modern os).
Because you first need to teach people dos (and 8.3), console cmdline and general concepts (stdin/stdout, working dir etc) They stuck with it a long time (mostly for the lack of better), but in the end gave up. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
