> This, however, I disagree with. I mean in a general sense, not specific to how your brain is wired. It all depends on the first couple of language that one learns and how they are learnt and taught. 10-15 years ago people would find it hard to grok Python's functional concepts. But as it began to be taught as the first language in universities and those graduates join the working population you see how it's super natural for them to grok Python.
That must be the reason why Edsger W Dijksta once stated [0]:
> "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."
... and ...
> "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
... and ..
> "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."
I must be one of those mentally mutilated programmers with no hope of regeneration :)
That must be the reason why Edsger W Dijksta once stated [0]:
> "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."
... and ...
> "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
... and ..
> "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."
I must be one of those mentally mutilated programmers with no hope of regeneration :)
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[0]: https://www.cs.scranton.edu/~mccloske/dijkstra_quotes.html