[log in to unmask] (Richard L. Conn) wrote: >I really have to disagree with your statement about >VB. We are talking about teaching Freshmen, not >Juniors or Seniors. In a very practical sense, if you >try to tell Freshmen how great generics, inheritance, >etc., are, it's likely that those who don't quit after >the first two weeks will have not done so because they >fell asleep and did not wake up in time ;-). Certainly that would have been the case if Ada had existed when I went to school, but aren't the students of today somewhat a different bunch since they grew up with computers. I would expect they already had some experience doing AppleScript or whatever the equivalent is in Microsoft-land. Larry Kilgallen