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n for me for a long time but that’s BASIC showing through. > It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure

n for me for a long time but that’s BASIC showing through. > 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.” - Edsger Dijkstra

m463 6y ago
He just couldn't imagine a proper language like Perl where you didn't even NEED a loop variable... foreach (@lines) { next if /^$/; ...
- hnick 6y ago
  You can even change the foreach to for if you seek more brevity in your Perl life (don't we all?).