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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And both lives end when you need to read some legacy VBA code base

[–] iSeth@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

"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