I don't give this article and the MRI study on which it is based much credence. Dijkstra was a great computer scientist, but I doubt that his iconic quotes here are based on real data. His comments on COBOL and Basic might have been influenced by his work on Algol, which he of course (as do I) found to be far superior :-).
IBM did an extensive study in 1990-1992, where they evaluated how well a large sample of programmers who were taught new OO languages (C++ and Smalltalk). A large positive correlation to success was whether the student had knowledge of a variety of programming languages and skills. Duh. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=141944 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> Full disclosure: Steve Goetze of Dovetail was one of the authors of the IBM paper/study and I worked in the instructor group that conducted it. PPS> My first programming languages (at university) were Fortran, APL, PL/1, Assembler. On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Gabe Goldberg <g...@gabegold.com> wrote: > https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-programming-affects-brain/ > > Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler. > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3401+Silver+Maple+Place,+Falls+Church,+VA+22042&entry=gmail&source=g> > (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
