high school programming & python

[Aahz Maruch]

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.

You were lucky to have switches.  We had to rewire the traces.
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