Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As

The Computing Scientist's Main Challenge Is Not To Get Confused By The Complexities Of His Own Making.

I Mentioned The Non-competitive Spirit Explicitly, Because These Days, Excellence Is A Fashionable Concept. But Excellence Is A Competitive Notion, And That Is Not What We Are Heading For: We Are Heading For Perfection.

We Shall Do A Much Better Programming Job, Provided That We Approach The Task With A Full Appreciation Of Its Tremendous Difficulty, Provided That We Stick To Modest And Elegant Programming Languages, Provided That We Respect The Intrinsic Limitations Of The Human Mind And Approach The Task As Very Humble Programmers.

A Programming Language Is A Tool That Has Profound Influence On Our Thinking Habits.

Too Few People Recognize That The High Technology So Celebrated Today Is Essentially A Mathematical Technology.