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• PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• BASIC - 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....
• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the pa
  it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger W....
• PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
  -- E.W. Dijkstra...
• FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
  it is now too clumsy, too risky, and to expensive to use....
• X windows: The ultimate bottleneck. Flawed beyond belief.
  The only thing you have to fear. Somewhere between chaos and insanity....
• How do I set my phaser to "tickle?