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• It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC
  as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration....
• 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....
• 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 /bay'-sic/ n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960
  which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers....
• 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....
• 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....
• BASIC programmers do it all over the place.
• C programmers don't have the BASIC instincts.