[LUAU] Re: Hosef

[Tim Newsham]

> The programming skill that is most critically needed is, hold your breath, 
> StarBasic (or any Visual Basic equivalent that works with OpenOffice.org).

I completely disagree.

The programming skill that is most critically needed is: The one that gets 
programmers started along the right track most easily.

The exact language is immaterial.  The language du jour will change many 
times (and I don't think starbasic will ever be one of them), but that 
doesn't matter, because a programmers can learn programming languages a 
lot more easily than they can learn programming concepts.

I'm sure your goals of getting more open office support are important, but 
if you teach teachers to teach a better programming language and they in 
turn get more children hooked on programming, they will be programming 
long after starbasic and openoffice and MS office (and MS) fade from 
prominance.

> Wayne

Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/