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From: kers@otter.HP.COM (Christopher Dollin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: First Languages (yet again)
Message-ID: <2400002@otter.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 88 10:20:10 GMT
References: <4022@ames.arpa>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,Bristol,UK.
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Well here we are on a "let's plug our favourite language" trip ...

As far as teaching programming languages go, Sussex University use Pop11 as
the language taught to students at their Cognitive Studies Department. Many
of these students are not programmers, and Pop11 is intended to be accessible
to them.

Pop11 is a descendant of Pop2, which at least one other poster has mentioned.
A recipe for constructing Pop11 might run ...

    Take the syntactic approach of Pascal [or Algol68], the data-type
    philosophy of Lisp, the open stack approach of Forth. Simmer well, testing
    frequently on novices. Serve. Update as necessary.

Me? I LOVE it!


Regards,
Kers                                    | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"