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  • Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

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  • The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

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    "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, June 18, 1975.

  • 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.

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    "The threats to computing science". Edsger Dijkstra remarks at ACM South Central Regional Conference, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 16-18, 1984.

  • Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

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Edsger Dijkstra

  • Born: May 11, 1930
  • Died: August 6, 2002
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist
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