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.

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Edsger W. Dijkstra

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BASIC

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Bow Hill Rest Area - I-5 northbound (wsdot.wa.gov)

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https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

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1975-06-18