Toronto high school expels Linux lab

[Ahmad]

Sy Ali wrote:
> There was a high school which had a Linux computer lab?  If I started
> out on Linux I would be totally different today.
> 
> But nooo.. DOS and later Windows 3.1.. or the alternative was an array
> of ICONs.  Nobody took those seriously.
> 
> The same goes with programming.. As a starting language I had Turing
> instead of BASIC.  Sigh.
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ICONs actually ran a flavour of UNIX at least that's what the admin told 
me when I was in high school.  Turing is a far better language to start 
off with than BASIC.  At least Turing has a formal concept of a pointer 
  and is procedural.
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