[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: VMS documentation

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 3/16/2022 8:09 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/16/2022 7:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> I think it would have been difficult to find a language easier to learn
>>> than Pascal.
>> 
>> Basic on the various DEC systems.
>
> Wirth, Dijkstra etc. did not like Basic.
>
> But yes - Basic is also an easy language to learn.
>

Easy to learn but it doesn't mean you are teaching students the right
things for when they need to start writing production code. :-)

Simon.

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