Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: On python as a teaching language: still inferior to 1980s era BASIC in one critical ...
On python as a teaching language: still inferior to 1980s era BASIC in one critical aspect. When you turned on your C64 or Atari 800 and got the BASIC prompt you also saw the header "31650 BASIC bytes free" on the screen. Even if you didn't define data or computations in terms of bits and bytes, you had an awareness of the resource cost of your programs as you wrote them. Modern day programminh education is too far removed from the underlying fundamentals.
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