I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.


Dijkstra (1984) Source: The threats to computing science (EWD898).

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I think of the company advertising Thought Processors or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching...

I think of the company advertising Thought Processors or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching...

I think of the company advertising Thought Processors or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching...

I think of the company advertising Thought Processors or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching...