Name: Anonymous 2017-07-27 11:50
The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
C --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 45 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
C --"the fatal disease"-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to C: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
The use of C cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
JavaScript 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.
C --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 45 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
C --"the fatal disease"-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to C: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
The use of C cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
JavaScript 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.