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From: grano@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juhani Grano)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Which language to teach first?
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Date: 7 Aug 89 20:07:10 GMT
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In article <86646@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> gateley@m2.UUCP (John Gateley) writes:
!This is not my experience: Scheme (or Lisp) makes it easy to understand
!most concepts in programming languages:
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!The expressiveness of the language combined with the simple syntax make
!it a very good language for learning about techniques used in different
!languages.

Yes, but trying to understand the syntax issues involved in the _older_
languages after using Scheme can be a pain in the neck :-)

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