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Charles Pegge

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Dijkstra on Programming
« on: October 01, 2010, 09:43:38 AM »
Edsger W. Dijkstra

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra


Critique

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/where-dijkstra-went-wrong-the-value-of-basic-as-a-first-programming-language/


How do we tell truths that might hurt?

Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

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