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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/17
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In article <373992FC.86F994D6@pwfl.com>,
	Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> wrote:


>... but it is difficult to
>imagine someone saying "Oh, you worked with language X so it must have
>dammaged your brain and made you worthless to do 'real' work!"

 Often attributed to Edsger Dijkstra is the quotation, "Anyone whose
 first programming language is BASIC is fundamentally brain dead."

 Of course, Dijkstra is also reported to have said, "I do not know what
 programming language will be used after the year 2000 but I do know it
 will be called Fortran."

 Richard Riehle
 richard@adaworks.com
 http://www.adaworks.com