Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As

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.

... As A Slow-witted Human Being I Have A Very Small Head And I Had Better Learn To Live With It And To Respect My Limitations And Give Them Full Credit, Rather Than To Try To Ignore Them, For The Latter Vain Effort Will Be Punished By Failure.

Apl Is A Mistake, Carried Through To Perfection. It Is The Language Of The Future For The Programming Techniques Of The Past: It Creates A New Generation Of Coding Bums.

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

Please Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Believing That I Am Terribly Dogmatical About The Go To Statement. I Have The Uncomfortable Feeling That Others Are Making A Religion Out Of It, As If The Conceptual Problems Of Programming Could Be Solved By A Single Trick, By A Simple Form Of Coding Discipline!