Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

[Mike Meyer]

roy at panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:

> There's a reprint this morning on slashdot of a 1984 review Byte did
> on the brand-new Macintosh (executive summary: cool machine, needs
> more memory).  The first four software packages available for the new
> machine?
>
> MacWrite/MacPaint (they seem to count this as one package)
> Microsoft Multiplan
> Microsoft BASIC
> CSI MacForth
>
> No mention of Python :-(

That's because the time machine doesn't work that far into the
past. It's primary use is to retroactively fix bugs in Python, so the
design spec only called for the ability to go back to the first public
release of Python.
       
       <mike
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