On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 23:22, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think it was flippant Edsger W. Dijkstra quote: > > “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, > therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”
Dijkstra wasn't hot on a lot of languages: "If Fortran has been called an infantile disorder, PL/I must be classified as a fatal disease." -Edsger Dijkstra in Introduction to the Art of Computer Programming Which prompted, or at least provided a juicy quote for, Ric Holt's 1972 paper "Teaching the Fatal Disease (or) Introductory Computer Programming Using PL/I". > I use programming languages that I don't like all the time. C, in > particular, I dislike a lot. That doesn't mean they're not useful. Whew! And I thought you were a C fanatic. Thanks for disabusing me of that. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
