Video: Does BASIC make programmers "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration"?
Date:
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:21:30 GMT
Description:
Edsger Dijkstra says yes.
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Edsger Dijkstra, the famed computer scientist behind ALGOL 60, once said that exposure to BASIC caused potential programmers to be "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration".
I have some thoughts on that.
This video was originally recorded on April 7th, 2019. It is presented here
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