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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Which language to teach first?
Summary: DISMAL
Message-ID: <14557@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 16:40:59 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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Actually the ideal first programming language to teach the scurvy masses
in their vast, stockyard-like freshman lecture halls is my own creation,
DISMAL (Deliberately Impractical Simple Minded Algorithmic Language).
In my experience, colleges are already turning out DISMAL programmers
anyway, so why not teach the language formally at the entry level.

Institutions desiring tapes of DISMAL should notify the secretary at:

		beautyeh@bland.toronto.edu

Implementing the DISMAL language system should be fairly straightforward
on most academic computing hosts, which appear to be capable of DISMAL
performance already.
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