[ILUG] introduction to programming

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Brian Foster wrote:

> p.s.  Paul's other suggestions seem spot on, except
>     data structuring should not be an afterthought;

Amen to that.

All this talk of what language is better appears to be missing that 
how you structure data is the most important aspect.

The language is really only relevant to the extent it limits ability 
to structure data. (And once you've done that, to extent it makes it 
easy to transform it, how you associate 'methods' with data is again 
far more important than how one actually implements the details of a 
method..).

regards,
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