(November 27, 2009 at 9:11 pm)Synackaon Wrote: Welcome. Good to see that sunday school also had no effect on you.Can't argue with that...I deliberately mentioned BASIC so that people wouldn't confuse me with a "real" programmer.
And BASIC sucks balls. Procedural programming at its worst with even worse garbage collection and shoddier coding practices. An in the words of one of my CS heroes:
"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. " -- Edsger Dijkstra
The thing is, I learnt BASIC on a Commodore 64 in the mid-1980's, then I used QBasic for about ten years - and then it was too late. Now I am so comfortable with the language that I will never give it up. Don't have to really...there's never been a program I've had to put on the shelf because I couldn't find the code to complete it.
