D Programmer Jobs at Sociomantic Labs

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 11/4/2013 11:22 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>
> I personally also think BASIC is a total waste of time for beginners. I
> does something to peoples minds that once they learn it, they never want
> to use anything else ever again. I totally agree with the following quote:
>
> "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
>

Bah. I started with various flavors of basic, then moved straight to 
C/C++ and a little bit of 6502 machine code, and then to a bunch of 
others including D. I've known other people who have successfully done 
much the same.

Dijkstra's full of shit on that one.