I also thought of that quote while reading the article, yet I disagree with Dijkstra. I think an appropriately skilled developer would be able to write a usefu

I also thought of that quote while reading the article, yet I disagree with Dijkstra. I think an appropriately skilled developer would be able to write a useful application in BASIC in the same way that the same programmer would be able to write something useful in assembler. I wouldn't want to write a large program in a language like that though, but I do think in the 80s programmers had to make do with what they had