Dr Alan Kay said "...arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras", but to my
mind had a dry sense of humour :-)

Roops

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, 04:22 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.”
>
> 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.
>
> No COBOL, no mainframe! Simple as that.
>
>
>

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