APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Edsger Dijkstra
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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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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called life, expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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