3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
5:26 a.m.
>>> Djikstra said, "It is virtually
impossible to teach good programming
>>> prctices to students with a prior exposure to BASIC; they are mentally
>>> mutilated beyond any hope of regeneration."
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Ian King wrote:
Quotation from "How do we tell truths that might
hurt?", Edsger
W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975, as retrieved from
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html on
2-JAN-2012:
"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."
I got it pretty close. Also, I was thinking of what he wrote in
"Unpleasant Truths : GOTO considered Haemful", so, I'll know how far off
I really was when I can find my source document.
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching
should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense." -- Ian
ONE semester, I had to teach COBOL! Somebody put that on the board before
class. They can't prove it; lots of people had chalk.
Can you find the time that he compared FORTRAN to Syphylis?