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• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the pa
  it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger W....
• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the problems of the pa
  it creates a new generation of coding bums....
• PL/I - the fatal disease - belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
  -- Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt", -- ACM Sig Plan Notices, May 82...
• BASIC - 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....
• FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
  it is now too clumsy, too risky, and to expensive to use....
• Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsicly doomed to fail.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• If the conjecture `You would rather I had not disturbed you by sending you this.
  ' is correct, you may add it to the list of uncomfortable truths. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• 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....