Programming language for children

Tony Baldwin photodharma at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 02:11:48 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:15:44PM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Things are also made clearer by tests, which again modern tools make 
> > ridiculously simple to implement.
> > 
> 
> But yet more difficult to change after designed.  For instance, it's 
> fairly simple to design a crud application in Netbeans, but change 
> without breaking it (for a newbie at least) could prove more difficult 
> than if you had started with vi and C++ from the beginning!
> 
> 

Easier yet to change a python, perl, or tcl/tk project, since they don't require compilation again.

/tony
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