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I had a Commodore-64 and a library card. I was born in '82, though. Anyway, my point was that Dijkstra's just being a grouchypants when he says that BASIC perm

I had a Commodore-64 and a library card. I was born in '82, though. Anyway, my point was that Dijkstra's just being a grouchypants when he says that BASIC permanently ruins people's minds for programming. Not even C++ could do that.

eru 17y ago
Yes. And at least BASIC doesn't give you the illusion of a "powerful language".