> 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.
I didn't mod you down, but it's worth pointing out that the versions of BASIC that Dijkstra was referring to are now dead. Without special effort and probably running an emulator, you will not be able to run an unstructured BASIC where goto is the primary control flow mechanism. It's all structured, as in "structured programming", now.
jerf|11 years ago
jacquesm|11 years ago