termcap - off topic musing
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Apr 23 10:05:44 PDT 2018
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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