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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/16/2022 8:55 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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. :-)

Teaching something that is easy to learn and teaching something
that is "right" to learn are two different goals.

Arne