Quotes about programming languages
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Basic was the both first and third language I learned (VB.Net and QBasic), and I didn't turn out that bad... :doh:
Basic was my first two languages. I was in a class in high school for VB (I don't remember if it was .Net) and didn't like it much, so spent most of my free time working with QuickBasic 4.5. My third, however, was C++ and that set me straight real quick. :rolleyes:
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Curious that they find this [sic]:
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that [sic] have had prior exposure to BASIC
But this [fine]:
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C++ is an horrible language
And I think my favorite is this one:
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Perl is the only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
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BASIC was my first programming language too, and I'm of the opinion that it's fine as a first language. How can you teach people the "right" way (with no GOTOs) if they don't learn the "wrong" way first. Besides, there are other languages that some may need to use that have GOTO but no "modern" looping structures; how will someone with no prior experience cope?
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Basic I would imagine would have been everybody's first programming language, it was certainly mine and not through and school either. I was in my late thirties when the TRS80 then the Comodore64 were released. I was hooked on computers after those two and moved rapidly to business software on my new IBM. Does anybody remember writing in Clipper and compiling it to an executable? Then using dBIII+ database files to store the data. Times have changed!!! I personally this programmers should be exposed at as many languages as possible, for appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of them all.
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Basic I would imagine would have been everybody's first programming language, it was certainly mine and not through and school either. I was in my late thirties when the TRS80 then the Comodore64 were released. I was hooked on computers after those two and moved rapidly to business software on my new IBM. Does anybody remember writing in Clipper and compiling it to an executable? Then using dBIII+ database files to store the data. Times have changed!!! I personally this programmers should be exposed at as many languages as possible, for appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of them all.
JohnPayton wrote:
for appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of them all.
Hear hear! That's why I didn't mind the Pascal, COBOL, Fortran, and Assembly (Macro 11) in college. And Lisp, mustn't forget that. :-O
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