Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 28. Sep 2024, 04:20:45
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:30:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Back in the days when BASIC was considered “advanced” ...
I don't think Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was ever
considered 'advanced'.
“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.”
― Edsger Dijkstra
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1013817.Edsger_W_DijkstraHe thought highly of COBOL too.
“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense.”
We had a RS6000 machine named 'djikstra' (sic). It was probably named by
the director of engineering. His personal Linux box was 'warfrat'. You
learn about regular expressions when search code created by a person who
couldn't spell for sour owl shit.
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