[Python-Dev] Hats off to them!

[Fredrik Lundh]

>     "Hats off to them. It's an extremely well designed language. It's
>     object orientated from the get-go. They've really succeeded there,"
>     he says, and commends it as the ideal teaching language. That
>     used to be BASIC, of course"

reading on, I'm not sure why BASIC ever was the ideal teaching
language:

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/gates.htm#tc11

    "One of the nice things about this BASIC is it has this so called
    direct mode. So you can PRINT 2 + 2. It prints the square root
    of ten"

Cheers /F