>>I just finished the "Rise and Resurection of the American Programmer"
>>and in it Ed Yourdon asks a very good question: If you child wanted to get into computers now what language would you suggest?
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>>Would it be FoxPro?
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>Hey Dave, how's it going?
>No, not vfp, or any other similar language, they're too difficult for a child to start with. I would begin with HTML. It's sort of like the contemporary version of BASIC we learned years ago...

It's going pretty good.
I didn't specify how old the child was. What if the child was starting college?