Tangential anti-educationist rant (was: what is easier to learn first?...)

[Jason Stokes]

Alessandro Bottoni wrote in message
<6D8A17398E28D3119F860090274DD7DB4985E5 at pces.cadlab.it>...

>Basic and C are well-known, no more than well-known. Hence, they are
>understandable.

Any boss who can countenance the teaching of Basic, programming mind-killer,
has no business in education in the first place.  I think this is a stupid
boss story.

I got started in TI-BASIC.  I had to unlearn it all to learn real
programming.