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• 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.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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....
• Quote #607 I fear the the new object-oriented systems may suffer the fate of LISP
  in that they can do many things, but the complexity of the class hierarchies may cause them to collapse under their own weight....
• 1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete. (2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
  (3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed....
• Laws of Computer Programming (1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
  (2) Any given program costs more and takes longer....
• This universe is sold by weight, not by volume. Some settling may have occurred during shipment.