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Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

Rhodri James rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Tue Sep 19 11:09:41 EDT 2017 
On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
> D'Arcy Cain <darcy at VybeNetworks.com> writes:
>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
>> theory behind what I am doing.
> 
>    I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
>    the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when
>    it is executed, its for loop eventually is implemented using
>    a GOTO-like jump instruction. Thanks to my learning of BASIC,
>    /I/ can have this insight. Younger people, who never learned
>    GOTO, may still be able to use Python, but they will not
>    understand what is going on behind the curtains. Therefore, for
>    a profound understanding of Python, everyone should learn BASIC
>    first, just like I did!

Tsk.  You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first, then 
you'd have an appreciation of what your processor actually did.

:-)

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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