From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 3 19:57:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28973 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28953 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05297; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:56:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA05999; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807040256.TAA05999@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) In-Reply-To: <199807031824.NAA13738@quark.ChrisBowman.com> from "Christopher R. Bowman" at "Jul 3, 98 01:10:26 pm" To: crb@ChrisBowman.com (Christopher R. Bowman) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: eivind@yes.no, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Christopher R. Bowman: > At 07:10 AM 7/3/98 , Eivind Eklund wrote: > >[snip] > > > >I'd use the same language to teach an 11-year-old as a 19+ year old. > >I'd preferably choose an interpreted language with fairly small and > >regular syntax; TCL, Scheme or Eiffel (the last only if I could run a > >'melting ice' environment) seem like good choices. > > > >[snip snip] > > Am I the only one who would teach people assembler as a first language, > especially young children who are so bright and learn so quickly that they > learn entire languages in a matter of a few years? I'm watching this discussion with considerable interest since my 32-month-old daughter is very interested in my computer. So far she's learned virtually all the ASCII character set, and in another few years I think that she will be ready for much more. What's the consensus on BASIC? Or FORTRAN? xcoral has a C interpreter that could be broken out... . Bright children really do absorb things quickly; just how quickly has amazed me no end! gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message