I think we should be funneling new programmers to languages that are easy to recover in. I have a few years of programming experience, but I've been taking a co

I think we should be funneling new programmers to languages that are easy to recover in. I have a few years of programming experience, but I've been taking a course that taught in C++. Do you know how easy it is to write syntactically incorrect code in c++ that compiles yet dumps upon program execution? Do you know how hard it is for someone with little experience in the language to diagnose segment faults without a line number? I recommend Java and Python. I avoid C++, C, and Ruby.