[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/9/19 4:03 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> Re the Dijkstra quote: please remember that the remark was made in the seventies, and BASIC at that time was a different beast than it is today. (Like most other languages).
> Hans
> 

It wasn't particularly the language he was attacking but the mindset
that using it developed in programmers.  Today he would likely be
saying the same about Perl, PHP and many of the other languages
that, by design, ar the antithesis to Software Engineering.

bill