Microsoft Pushes Kid's Programming Language

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Microsoft Pushes Kid's Programming Language
http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=171201457
Date: September 29, 2005 1:33:35 PM EDT
By Alexander Wolfe, TechWeb News

Microsoft has signed on to promote a new programming language
intended to replace BASIC as the first step students take towards
learning how to code.
The Kid's Programming Language, or KPL, was developed under the
direction of Jonah Stagner, and his colleagues, ex-Microsoft program
manager Jon Schwartz and former NCR engineer Walt Morrison. The three
run the software consultancy Morrison-Schwartz Inc.
Indeed, KPL's affinity for .NET, and the fact that it runs only on
Windows, may be the big reason Microsoft is supporting the new
language. "Microsoft's major interest is, they want to bring another
generation of talented programmers to the world," said Morrison. "And
they want them using their platforms. It makes sense to us, too. We
believe in the .NET environment. We've been using it for the last
four years and that's where we want our kids to go."

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