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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: David Cantrell <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:17:18 +0100
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:46:09 +0200, "T.J.T van Kooten"
<thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> said:
>Don't get me wrong. Basic was a good beginners language but these days I
>think Python is far more suited for newbies and novices.
Until those newbies start wondering why their programs don't work, and
it turns out to be because they typed the wrong number of spaces, or
confused a tab for some spaces or vice versa.
Python is a rather nice language, but requires a newbie-unfriendly
editor like emacs to keep the programmer sane.
How about Ruby?
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David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david