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Pascal (the reference PL) is sooo clumsy and verbose that I just can't take Dijkstra's opinion at its face value. Maybe early BASICs were so-so, but QBasic alr
by thriftwy 3y ago
Pascal (the reference PL) is sooo clumsy and verbose that I just can't take Dijkstra's opinion at its face value.
Maybe early BASICs were so-so, but QBasic already had all kind if procedural stuff.
- vajrabum 3y agoIn 1975 there was no QBasic which according to Wikipedia was delivered in 1991. And pretty much no microcomputers.
- thriftwy 3y agoWhat would that generation of programmers do their thing on? A programmable abacus?
- vajrabum 3y agoMainframes or minicomputers of course, mostly from IBM (mainframe) and DEC (minicomputers). There were other players and IBM sold minis and DEC sold mainframes but those two dominated those two niches.
- thriftwy 3y agoHow do you spoil mainframe programmers? I don't believe they had sufficient passion and/or freedom to manifest spoiledness.