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There's your problem right there: > It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential pr
by hyperpallium 8y ago
There's your problem right there:
> 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. https://wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra https://wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
- jtms 8y agoDijkstra: Read heaps about his work, but had never seen his picture until just now - looks very Walter White esque there! “Breaking BASIC”
- james_s_tayler 8y agoholy crap he does too!
- vezycash 8y agoFound this hilarious >The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.