It says a lot about our knowledge about teaching and learning programming that pithy quotes from 35 years ago are still regarded by many as being relevant. I m

It says a lot about our knowledge about teaching and learning programming that pithy quotes from 35 years ago are still regarded by many as being relevant. I mean, has anyone actually studied the academic outcomes of programmers who started on BASIC or VB, versus those who started on other languages? Has anyone determined if programmers who start out in VB make more errors than programmers who started out in say, assembler, or C, or Python, to any statistically significant degree?