[personal profile] jeff wrote
on January 11th, 2006 at 09:42 pm

It depends on what Basil wants to program

Your choice of language should also depend on what he wants to program. I can assure you that he'll be far more interested in programming something interesting to him instead of something that feels like homework.

If Lego Mindstorms uses Lisp, then that's likely all the motivation he needs. Games are always fun: Hangman would be possible in any language, although probably easier in Perl than in Lisp.

There might also be a game engine that uses some simple language to do what he would like. I remember Activision putting out something like this for the C-64 a long time ago (Game Construction Kit, maybe?), but I don't know if there's anything like this today.
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