Great Fortran, APL and COBOL my main languages, with a sprinkling of DCL. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "General Discussion, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <[email protected]> > To: "Fred Cisin" <[email protected]>, "General Discussion, On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 4:37:11 PM > Subject: Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, geneb wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure he said that about BASIC, and I'm totally bummed he died >>> before I could bitch slap him over it. ;) >> >> well, close. >> His BASIC quote is: >> "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." >> > > That doesn't explain the millions of kids that got their start in BASIC > and grew up to learn skills that could wipe the floor with him... > >> Here is one copy of his 1975 paper, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt": >> https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html >> > > The problem is that it's not a "truth", it's horseshit, plain and simple. > People that think so much of themselves that they consider their opinions > to have the weight of fact just make me froth at the mouth. :) > >> I don't know what language(s), if any, that he liked. > > Then he should have sat down, shut up, and let the adults talk. ;) > > g. > > > -- > Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 > http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. > http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. > Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. > > ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment > A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. > http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
