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Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages.

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Forms follow function, and often obliterate it.
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FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is
hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in
mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than
the solution set.
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.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of
the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a
new generation of coding bums.
Edsger Dijkstra's Evaluations of Programming Languages (c. 1982)
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fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE OBSCURE FILMS! #6