termcap - off topic musing

[Fairlight]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:54:42AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>      "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."  -- Dijkstra

My first language was BASIC.  This quote is utter hyperbole.

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