11-02-2004, 05:57 AM
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Join Date: August 27, 2004
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Age: 61
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Quote:
Originally posted by aleph_null1:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-Edsger W. Dijkstra, Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective
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LOL!!! Well I was "beyond hope" before I even started BASIC, so what little exposure I had didn't do any damage that wasn't already done. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]
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