It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin via cctalk once stated: > >>Edsger Dijksta said, "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching > >>should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." > > 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." > > 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 > > I don't know what language(s), if any, that he liked.
Math. -spc (Had some comp-sci profs who didn't like programming or computers)
