The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)
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- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E. W. Dijkstra... - The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5... - COBOL /koh'bol/ n.
[COmmon Business-Oriented Language]
(Synonymous with evil.
) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes.... - Quote #154
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.
-- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975.... - The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our
thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra... - The teaching of BASIC in schools, should be considered a criminal act. -- Dijkstra
- The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as
rather silly.
I would rather use them to mimic something better. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
