At university I took one cs class, which was an easy credit part of a math class. It was taught in Fortran and at the beginning of the first lecture (this was i

At university I took one cs class, which was an easy credit part of a math class. It was taught in Fortran and at the beginning of the first lecture (this was in 1990) the lecturer asked for a show of hands who had experience with BASIC and many of us raised our hands. We were then given a pessimistic variant of the Dijkstra quote. I never took another CS class I have been working in the industry for nearly 30 years, have worked on cutting edge technology, contributed to software that billions of people use (and written plenty that fewer than 10 people use) I will, of course, never have the same impact/influence that Dijkstra has had. Did he ever acknowledge how fundamentally wrong he was about this?