That is a classic Edsger Dijkstra-quote, from his little musing "How do we tell truths that might hurt?". Full memo here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.htmlI think there are plenty of good coders in this community that started with BASIC.. There wasn't much choice when I was 5-6 years old..Teach 'em python, and they'll never write a badly-indented piece of code againIt is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC![]()
Dijkstra is, by all accounts, part of the pantheon of computer science. However, I would trust him more with finding a funny putdown of a computer language than with actual advice on computer languages to use. Although he was right at times:
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.