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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/22
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003220851480.3555-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> Dijkstra also wrote that CS students should be kept away from a
> computer for their first year and focus on pencil and paper proofs (no
> problem for me, I was a Math major) and he probably didn't like Ada
> anyways so phooey on him :-)

I don't ever really expect to agree with Dijkstra. But that's because
Basic was my first language, therefore I am "mentally mutilated beyond
all hope of saving", or somesuch.


For the record, I think my wife would agreee with him on that point. :-)

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