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From: ronald@csuchico.UUCP
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Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC de
Message-ID: <669@csuchic.csuchico.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 06:56:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: csuchic.669
Posted: Mon Aug 10 06:56:48 1987
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References: <2893@uw-june.UUCP> <69300001@convex>
Organization: California State University, Chico
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Summary: Ada unsuitable?  Really?

In article <69300001@convex>, bernhart@convex.UUCP writes:
> 
> Why is Ada unsuitable as a first programming language?  (Beware of using
> the word "clearly" - what's clear to you may not be so clear to everyone
> else.)

Marcia,
	Ada isn't exactly unsuitable, it's just that there are many other
good choices for a first programming language.  I believe that this is the
jist of the current "first programming language" banter.

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