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• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- E. W. Dijkstra...
• Quote #154 The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
  -- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975....
• COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
  ) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes....
• 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...
• FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
  it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use....
• 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....