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Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> Well Dijkstra's point about BASIC was wrong.  BASIC was my first language
> and I turned out fine.  Furthermore, I know others whose first language was
> BASIC, and they turned out fine too.

My first language was BASIC as well.
Take that as you will :-)