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I prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Honestly, I can't think of many languages that are bad at teaching fundamentals. Assembler? If you stay away from pointers, C?

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Re^4: Okay I have cleaned it up a little bit
by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 15, 2007 at 20:21 UTC

    Heh, I even tried teaching someone using Forth once. :-D

    It wasn't a success, but I don't think it was the language choice that was the problem. ;)


    DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
      As long as it's not meta html. Worst language I ever had to deal with.