Posted by Stephen Auerbach (67.86.36.170) on December 13, 2004 at 07:10:50:
I cleanup up my office and tossed a 1980s vintage Qantel utilities manual. Just reading the titles - **COPY, *TAPE, *TITLE - made me feel a little younger.
Thought I'd share this quote from Edsger Dijkstra, [author of 'Goto Considered Harmful' see http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/]
"It is pratically impossible to teach good programming style to students who have had prior exposure to Basic; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."