Re:Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my littl...
by Zak on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:23PM
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As an occasional reader of The Daily WTF, I don't think it's fair to say that this sort of thing never hurt anyone.
Every language that has been around for a while has its own culture and traditions. The culture of PHP is a better reason to avoid it than the language itself. I spent a lot of time un-learning habits I picked up from languages like PHP and BASIC. I suspect I would know a lot more now if I had started with Smalltalk[0] and not had to waste as much time un-learning bad habits.
Every language that has been around for a while has its own culture and traditions. The culture of PHP is a better reason to avoid it than the language itself. I spent a lot of time un-learning habits I picked up from languages like PHP and BASIC. I suspect I would know a lot more now if I had started with Smalltalk[0] and not had to waste as much time un-learning bad habits.
[0] Python wasn't around then