On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:39 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a paper some years ago on why C is a horrible language *to teach with* > http://www.the-magus.in/Publications/chor.pdf > > I believe people did not get then (and still dont) that bad for > - beginner education (CS101) > - intermediate -- compilers, OS, DBMS etc > - professional software engineering > > are all almost completely unrelated
Yes. In esr's essay on becoming a hacker[1] he says: """There is perhaps a more general point here. If a language does too much for you, it may be simultaneously a good tool for production and a bad one for learning.""" Definitely true, though I think it has exceptions. [1] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
