Video: Does BASIC make programmers "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration"?
Edsger Dijkstra says yes.
Edsger Dijkstra, the famed computer scientist behind ALGOL 60, once said that exposure to BASIC caused potential programmers to be "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration".
I have some thoughts on that.
This video was originally recorded on April 7th, 2019. It is presented here as it was originally published -- unedited.
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