I never quite get these kind of comments. Scores of developers that were raised on BASIC assert that knowledge of BASIC gives you brain damage. Presumably, the

I never quite get these kind of comments. Scores of developers that were raised on BASIC assert that knowledge of BASIC gives you brain damage. Presumably, they do not consider themselves to be brain-damaged. Similar things happen with, say, products of public schooling. Which isn't to advance an, "I was spanked and I turned out fine..." kind of argument. Even if that's true, we can establish higher floors than "fine." It's the self-defeating hysterics around the presentation that make it come off the wrong way to me.