> You agree that "BASIC is a crappy language by modern standard". Why is Dijkstra not allowed to make that point? But...that is not the point he is making. He

> You agree that "BASIC is a crappy language by modern standard". Why is Dijkstra not allowed to make that point? But...that is not the point he is making. He is not saying BASIC is a crappy language - he is saying programmers which have learnt BASIC are bad programmers, even if they learn other languages and techniques. That is a pretty arrogant and not particularly clever thing to say.