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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 02:22:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On 28 Sep 2024 02:20:45 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:30:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> Back in the days when BASIC was considered “advanced” ...
> 
> I don't think Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was ever
> considered 'advanced'.

It had dynamic strings, which most other languages of the time did not 
(unless you went to Lisp, which was considered Serious CompSci Magic).

> “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.”
> ― Edsger Dijkstra

Looking back, a lot of his writings just seem like trolling.