Re: Re: Re: Re: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham

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It's the best language for teaching structured top-down programming.

There I have to disagree. I didnt like Turing a lot, but if I had to teach someone to program and I had a choice between Turing and Pascal, Turing would win hands down. But not being so well known I can see why people might suggest Pascal. :-)

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demerphq

_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}