high school programming & python

[Cameron Laird]

In article <7rmmjr$qv6 at dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com>,
Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <$JL+lCAFvt33Ewr8 at jessikat.demon.co.uk>,
>Robin Becker  <robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <937300939snz at vision25.demon.co.uk>, Phil Hunt
>><philh at vision25.demon.co.uk> writes
>>>In article <PsnD3.17$ri1.778 at newsfeed.avtel.net>
>>>           nospam at bitbucket.com "Phil Mayes" writes:
>>>>
>>>> This is, as you imply, a fallacious argument; if carried to its logical
>>>> extreme, we shouldn't teach C because students will be spoiled and not
>>>> want to use assembler.  In fact, assembler spoils people for machine
>>>> language :-)
>>>
>>>Machine language! You young people today don't know what hardship
>>>is... when I were a lad, we had to manually patch the ALU using
>>>plug boards to change the logic.
>>
>>You were lucky to have plugboards. We had to key things in with a bunch
>>of switches.
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>You were lucky to have switches.  We had to rewire the traces.
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If a mercury delay line won't pass it, it's not worth computing.
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