From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 3 03:10:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28254 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28231 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA02110; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:39:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980703193912.M358@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:39:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Eivind Eklund Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) References: <19980703010915.6825.qmail@hotmail.com> <19980703124514.H358@freebie.lemis.com> <19980703022310.B4457@zappo> <19980703111031.39367@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Crx4ogv7gsne=2Efsf=40oslo=2Egeco-prakla=2Eslb=2Ecom=3E?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3B_from_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_on_Fri=2C_Jul_03=2C?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_1998_at_12:01:25PM_+0200?= WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 3 July 1998 at 12:01:25 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Eivind Eklund writes: >> Hey! This is cool! The author of the language-implementation the >> local univeristy uses to teach programming (they use Simula, telling >> users to get cim for homework) is using TCL to teach programming! >> *large and evil grin* > > What the hell is that grin for? Would *you* teach an eleven-year old > to program with a compiled language? Of course you wouldn't. You'd > choose an interpreted language where subtle typos don't shoot your > leg off. To be fair, I agree with Eivind. If this guy is so convinced about his language, he'll write an interpreter. And if you can shoot your leg off with Simula at age 11, you can still crash a plane with it at age 33. (Not that I have had much to do with Simula in the last 20 years. Which version is this?) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message