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Where Dijkstra went wrong: the value of BASIC as a first programming language
- pmccool 17y agoThing is, the sort of thing that BASIC makes you good at is exactly the sort of thing that Dijkstra was railing against. The point, as I understand it wasn't that learning BASIC made you incapable of writing code, but that it taught habits that were fatal to the kind of mathematically rigourous thinking that he was trying to encourage.