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HHC 2018 Programming Contests
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(09-19-2018 10:25 AM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  
Quote: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 in EWD498

Dijkstra was known for some radical statements regarding programming techniques as well as general statements, as this one.

The first language I learned as a 10 year old boy was BASIC, during a weekend, from first computer magazine which become available in the country. Back in that time, it was extremely difficult and expensive (practically impossible) to find anything regarding computers and electronic, as well as personal computer itself. It was followed FORTRAN, COBOL, C, Pascal, PROLOG, LISP, object version of Pascal, C++, Java...

I personally never found a single problem regarding understanding new concepts nor techniques and used programming language which was the most appropriate or required for the job. Therefore, from my point of view, quoted statement where fundamentally wrong, as it is based on wrong assumptions.

Of course, in some point of time, specialization with one or few languages is necessary, since many mature and necessary libraries become more difficult to port and maintenance on many new or personally preferable programming languages and finally that becomes the primary reason as well as popularity and preferable ones in specific field of interest, including RAD abilities.
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