Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff 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 References: <6774@titan.UUCP> <6251@hubcap.clemson.edu> <2450@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 16 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. -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET