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2026-05-01 19:44 UTC
@hananc@tooot.im Quote from Edsger Dijkstra: "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."
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@RonInDortmund@mastodon.scot 2026-05-01 19:46
@hananc@tooot.im Posted without comment :-) Maybe because I learned PL/1 and 360 Assembler at the start...