On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:42:07 PM UTC+5:30, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 17 December 2013 00:39, rusi wrote: > > I had a paper some years ago on why C is a horrible language *to teach with* > > http://www.the-magus.in/Publications/chor.pdf
> Thanks for this Rusi, I just read it and it describes very well what I > think about our own C course. My choice quote from the beginning would > be "When the irrelevant becomes significant, the essentials become > obscured and incomprehensible." > (BTW is there any reason that the document is repeated twice in the same pdf?) Thanks for the heads-up -- some pdf generation issues I guess Is it ok now? Yeah I could clean up some more formatting some more but its 25 years now and Ive forgotten my troff!! More important the tone is not what I would use today. The point I was trying to make then was: C is an unsuitable language to TEACH PROGRAMMING WITH because it fills students' brains with irreleventia Once one knows the stuff, C is a NEAT programming language. IOW its a question of learning-curve not the content. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
