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The Little Coder's Predicament

Posted by timothy on from the 10-goto-20-20-goto-10 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's an interesting article on Advogato about the world of computing that kids today find themselves in compared to the world that kids in the 80's found themselves in. Learning to program in the 80's was simpler because the machines were more limited, and generally came with BASIC. Now we have Windows, which typically comes with no built-in programming language. What can be done to improve the situation?"

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  1. Re:Except... by rot26 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (And by the way, recursive descent compilers are very efficient, and don't use any "goto"s, either. I don't know why they aren't as popular as LALR(1) compilers. The BNF required is, IMHO, easier to understand.)Big-O.

    I'm much too drunk to address any of your other shit, but I'll just say "you're wrong, nanny nanny boo boo".

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