Computers for children

From: Miles O'Neal <meo_at_netads.com>
Date: Wed Jan 13 17:44:22 1999

Jim Strickland said...
|
|Actually, that too is a learning experience. You only build one spaghetti
|program that you'd like to maintain before you learn the error of your ways.

Thank you.

In fact, one can program well in any language,
including Dartmouth BASIC, FORTRAN IV, even (I
am serious) in COBOL.

BASIC doesn't encourage spaghetti code. Sloppy
attitudes and approaches encourage it. Hacking
encourages it.

And trust me, BASIC isn't even *close* to raw
FORTRAN IV for being easy to spaghettize.

``You are lost in a twisty maze of arithmetic if's all alike''.

And yet some of the most elegant, clean, well-structured
code I've ever worked with was in FORTRAN IV.

-Miles
Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 17:44:22 GMT

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