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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....
• 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....
• 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...
• PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• Many companies that have made themselves dependent on [the equipment of a certain major manufacturer] (and in doing so have sold their soul to the devil) will collapse under the sheer weight of the unmastered complexity of their data processing systems.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
  it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use....
• Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsicly doomed to fail.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...