At 09:23 AM 1/3/2012, MikeS wrote:
I don't think Josh was questioning whether Dijkstra
said it, but whether
it's actually *true*; since you (Toby) say elsewhere that "I too learned
with assembler, BASIC, Pascal, C, and so on", then you must also be
"mentally mutilated beyond any hope of regeneration".
You could always become a Perl programmer.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html>http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html
My college buddy Tom Christiansen, co-author of the "camel" book,
and I certainly ingested a lot of BASIC-Plus, too.
- John