Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Astronomy and programming languages Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:28:14 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: <20170608082814.2dcc8ec0@_> References: <2017Jun3.110911@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <4e405e42-f148-4514-b023-0df92ea41159@googlegroups.com> <3daf336e-6996-4de4-be0e-9ced579314ab@googlegroups.com> <20170607160543.303725c0@_> NNTP-Posting-Host: ZTD62cW/Uw8bymX5ok+0NA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:60467 On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 20:26:32 +0000 (UTC) "Rudy Velthuis" wrote: > "It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to > students that have had prior exposure to Basic; as potential > programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of > regeneration." -- Edsger Dijkstra > That's not true. I used Dijkstra's structured programming concepts with BASIC. It was what kept my code from becoming spaghetti code. Of course, that can't be said of other BASIC programmers ... I saw another programmers' BASIC code turn into spaghetti code. Rod Pemberton -- The Paris Agreement is irrelevant. A carbon tax is futile. The only solution is technology. Please tell Elon Musk that he is not being a technology visionary.