Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:22:56PM -0500, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> > You're trying to portray languages that high school students might use 
> > to learn programming as somehow unfit for real, he-man programmers. 
> 
> Well, the shoe fits Visual Basic.

"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."
- Edsger Dijkstra

I hope I didn't learn too much from basic before learning to program.
Basic never did seem like a very good language at gettings things done.
Pascal was a lot better.

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Len Sorensen
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