On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> And as to lusers with a little too much knowledge... yeah, they can be
> a problem, and a LART's not always at hand...
...or worth the resulting jail time! :-)
> Well, you won't get much disagreement from me here... but I've seen
> COBOL code that was more spaghetti'd out than the worst BASIC I've
> seen...
BASIC is an OK starting point for someone who's destined to be a good
programmer. Its problem is that it doesn't do enough to weed out the bad
ones, who will then progress furthur into the trade on the false
assumption that they have what it takes. I reference my previous post
about assembly language... ;-D
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 23:32:02 BST