As skeptical as I am about adhering to a specific language for teaching programming, quotes like this smack so badly of curmudgeon-ism (yes, I know who Dijkstra

As skeptical as I am about adhering to a specific language for teaching programming, quotes like this smack so badly of curmudgeon-ism (yes, I know who Dijkstra is) that I can't take them seriously. I learned on BASIC (and LOGO) as a young child myself and transitioning into a production language wasn't an issue.