Why Python is like BASIC (and why this is a good thing)

[Henrik Motakef]

Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> writes:

> BASIC a very good language for teaching????
> Well, it depends on what you want to teach, I guess.

Or, in the words of Edsger Dijkstra:

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to
students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
regeneration."

scnr
Henrik