On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:29:38AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Comparing to Pascal is hardly fair or even useful, since it's barely used > > anymore (outside of Borland's Delphi). A better comparison would be Python, > > which is designed to be both a learning language *and* practical. > Is it considered better these days to learn an object-oriented > language first? Maybe. That was certainly the Official Wisdom for several years. However, I think many people do just fine learning modern procedural programming first. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
