One still hear's tones of regret that the good old
days are over, when one's choice of a first year
computer language was obvious: Algol or Pascal.
Today there's no such consensus (if there ever
was), but another question is should we have
learning languages?
There was a time when it was
My whimsical title relates to the conflation of two
notions: cows in a morphogenetic field, and
the spread of computer languages.
As more and more people learn Python, does it
get easier to learn? That would seem an obvious
no unless you believe in magic, but then think
about it: more people