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The ends and the means are not necessarily the same thing!
I would rather teach a new programmer Scheme, Python, Ruby etc than PHP, VB, etc.
davidw
on Oct 1, 2009
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Sure, those languages are better, but the point is making programming more accessible to more people (something Python has done quite well too, indeed).
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I would rather teach a new programmer Scheme, Python, Ruby etc than PHP, VB, etc.