From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-03-27T01:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the word to conventional programmers


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Glenn Parker wrote:

> Too much PHP must rot an important area of the brain, the same way
> candy affects your teeth.  :)

Which reminds me...

"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." -- Dijkstra

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence." -- Dijkstra

"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of
the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new
generation of coding bums." -- Dijkstra

"GOTO statement considered harmful"
 -- Source: title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968) 

"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only
have originated in California." -- Dijkstra

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