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I thought this quote was amusingly relevant. "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as po
by asnyder 16y ago
I thought this quote was amusingly relevant.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
- megablast 16y agoHa, ha, ha. This has an element of truth to it, but does that mean we can't get kids into programming? Or can they learn C/Perl/etc at the same way? I got started in basic, then assembly, C, Ada, Java, etc... So there is hope, or maybe I am a lost cause.