On 26 Feb 2006 14:55:04 -0800, Andrea Griffini wrote: > IMO another language that would be hard to classify is COBOL ... but > for other reasons :-)
According to Dijkstra: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." That makes Cobol a Zen language (since it not only changes, but also cripples the mind). And BASIC too: "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." -- USB Priests for only 10$ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
