I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, The threats to computing science (1984)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html

From his 1984 EWD note on the threats to computing science.

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