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[geneb]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, geneb wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure he said that about BASIC, and I'm totally bummed he died 
>> before I could bitch slap him over it. ;)
>
> well, close.
> His BASIC quote is:
> "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."
>

That doesn't explain the millions of kids that got their start in BASIC 
and grew up to learn skills that could wipe the floor with him...

> Here is one copy of his 1975 paper, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt":
> https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html
>

The problem is that it's not a "truth", it's horseshit, plain and simple. 
People that think so much of themselves that they consider their opinions 
to have the weight of fact just make me froth at the mouth. :)

> I don't know what language(s), if any, that he liked.

Then he should have sat down, shut up, and let the adults talk. ;)

g.


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