4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
3:04 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Richard wrote:
As someone who learned BASIC first and then a slew of
other languages
later, I would also disagree with Dijkstra's statement. It's a nice
sound bite that gets people's attention, but it's neither a truism,
nor is it even an essential statement about programming. It's just
his bias showing through.
But, you agree with his comments about COBOL? APL? FORTRAN? PL1?
Entertaining, if slightly exaggerated.