Toiby; #14 an rising

0ffh spam at frankhirsch.net
Wed Nov 7 07:39:08 PST 2007


Daniel Keep wrote:
> "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 W. Dijkstra

There is surely something to this - but then BASIC in those days was a
completely different language from BASIC today. Todays BASICs are more
like sloppy Pascal dialects. Still bad enough, though.

Regards, Frank



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