On 11/4/2013 11:22 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
I personally also think BASIC is a total waste of time for beginners. I does something to peoples minds that once they learn it, they never want to use anything else ever again. I totally agree with the following quote: "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 W. Dijkstra
Bah. I started with various flavors of basic, then moved straight to C/C++ and a little bit of 6502 machine code, and then to a bunch of others including D. I've known other people who have successfully done much the same.
Dijkstra's full of shit on that one.
