On (10 Mar 98) Bill White wrote to David Williams...
 BW>      Allow me, please, to disagree with you a little.
 BW> language was, some principles will apply to all.  My
 BW> first language taught me Logical Thinking - which is
 BW> sometimes counter-intuitive.  It taught me that if a
 BW> routine is not working as I intended it to work, to sit
 BW> down with paper and pencil, pretend that _I_ am a
 BW> computer, and go thru the routine step by step seeing
 BW> exactly what the computer is seeing.  I can (usually)
 BW> find the problem that way.
You put this much better than I did.  When we talk about logic
it means something quite different to us as programmers than it
does to say, a foreign service diplomat.
 BW>      I started BASIC with Benton Harbor BASIC, followed
 BW> by MicroSoft MSBASIC, GWBasic, & QuickBASIC.  I used
 BW> some Assembly when I had the Heathkit H89 only because
 BW> MSBASIC was not compilable and Assembly could run so
 BW> much faster:
Precisely the same road I travelled.
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