I wish seeing the name Dijkstra didn't immediately remind me of his oft-quoted BASIC comment:
"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."
The problem is it's quoted regardless of how much the BASIC dialect being discussed resembles the one he was talking about [1]. There are lots of good BASIC languages out there running all kinds of useful software that are dismissed out of hand by a subset of developers simply from that comment.
"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."
The problem is it's quoted regardless of how much the BASIC dialect being discussed resembles the one he was talking about [1]. There are lots of good BASIC languages out there running all kinds of useful software that are dismissed out of hand by a subset of developers simply from that comment.
[1] https://programmingisterrible.com/post/40132515169/dijkstra-...