Hi All-- Roy Smith wrote: > When you learn Forth, you will have learned Forth. > About the best that can be said about that is that It'll give you a > head-start if your next goal is to learn PostScript :-) >
In which case, you should start with PostScript;-) I learned it by plugging a glass tty into the serial port on one of the very first AppleWriters and typing away. None of this fancy-shmancy '>>>' business;-) But what a great reward, having graphics come out the printer when you typed 'show'. Seriously, PostScript is a lot more fun to learn than Forth, and more directly useful. Since the rewards are so immediate, a kid's attention could be gained and kept pretty easily. But I'd still recommend Python as a first programming language. Keep to the standard stuff--ignore list comprehensions and so on--until he or she has the basic control flow down pat. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list