ActionScript as a teaching language

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Awk is only marginally less "dead" than Latin;

    Nonsense. It is used everyday by shell scripters. The comp.lang.awk
    newsgroups is active, and there is also much discussion of awk in
    comp.unix.shell.

> I don't think too many Grade 11 classes will be using it.

    They should.

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