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Well here is a good chance to see whether we have any consensus. Suppose
we are voting on which programming langauge ALL students learn in
elementary school, that we have the power to mandate this choice to all
school systems and the funds to empower them to actually teach it, so that
we can build on that knowledge later. Do you vote for Basic, Pascal,
Java, C+, ...
Richard Grandy
Philosopher Gadfly
Rice University
Houston TX 77096
At 8:03 PM -0800 1/13/98, Leigh Palmer wrote:
In this particular case, Larry, the situation is not in the lack of an
agreement. Most science teachers would agree that having one common
simple language would be desirable. We lack a mechanism for turning
a dream into a reality. Something is not right somewhere.
Larry's right about taste, however. There's no pleasing everybody in
the matter of languages. Two of my children learned APL as their first
computer language. Imagine trying to sell *that* one to the masses!
Leigh