Teaching python (programming) to children

[Fredrik Lundh]

David Andreas Alderud wrote:
> > And what bad practices would those be?
>
> Having a non-declarative language as a first choice is bad, teaches them to
> write sloppy code.

have you teached python to the kind of people you label as
"them"?  or are you just yet another 3l33t language snob?

> Ada is fantastic, with it I write inline Assembly

well, duh.  nevermind.