Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!garry From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Languages learned first Message-ID: <1992@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 13:43:11 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.1992 Posted: Sun Jan 11 13:43:11 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 05:35:44 EST Reply-To: garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell Engineering && Flying Moose Graphics Lines: 16 In a recent article sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) wrote: > ... What Wirth and no one else probably didn't >realize is that the language you learn first is the one you know best and >the one you prefer... You gotta be kidding!!! PDP-11 assembler? TRS-80 Basic?? For me it was the language I learned 4th that I like best (and unfortunately no longer have a compiler for) - dear old Simula. Learning Fortran as #1 just allowed me to appreciate the beauty of the world better when I later encountered structured languages. Though I still use Fortran when I need to do a quickie (and don't want to bother typing in all those declarations :-) garry wiegand (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)