"Richard O'Keefe" <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> writes:

>Well in that case, perhaps the language to start with should be Haskell...

Teaching programming by starting people on Haskell is like teaching ESOL
(English for non-English speakers) by starting them on Klingon [0].

Peter.

[0] For those unfamiliar with it, it's been specifically designed to be unlike
    any other language spoken on earth.

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