"The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."
— BASIC

January 1, 1970

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Edsger W. Dijkstra, "The Threats to Computing Science", ACM 1984 South Central Regional Conference, November 16–18, Austin, Texas. EWD898.