Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 02:52:18 CEST 2013

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> .. especially by people that expect it to work like VB's "on error resume next"
> rather than by suppressing the exception and resuming execution after the
> with statement.

"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."

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

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs655/readings/ewd498.html

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