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.
-- Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt",
-- ACM Sig Plan Notices, May 82
students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-- Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt",
-- ACM Sig Plan Notices, May 82
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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... - 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... - 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",... - BASIC /bay'-sic/ n.
A programming language,
originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system
in the early 1960s,
which for many years was the leading cause of brain... - APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of
the future for the programming techniques of the past:
it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger... - FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old,
is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application... - BASIC programmers do it all over the
place... - C programmers don't have the BASIC
instincts...
From the same category:
- And Boy!
are my arms tired!... - Sherwood Forest. Which dear do you want?
--
Answering machine madness - odd... - Happy is the house that shelters a
friend. --... - Sunbeams play with spray and mist in rainbow colors.
John... - One, two, three o'clock,
four o'clock rock.....
