Re: Help with a problem

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, G. Frege wrote:

> Reminds me of the famous quote:
>
> "It is practically impossible to teach good programming style
> to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
> programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
> regeneration."
>
> (Edsger Dijkstra)

Reminds me of a sister quote:

It's practically impossible to teach pure mathematics to students that
have had prior exposure to computer languages: as potential
mathematicians, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
.

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