"The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. ... It is practically impossible

"The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. ... 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. The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." - How do we tell truths that might hurt? Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975 https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.htm...