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Re:E. Dijkstra: Computer science is paralyzed by accepting t... by gruseom on Monday February 04, 2008 @12:45AM (#108963)
Of course it's bullshit. A generation of hackers started with Basic on TRS-80s and Apple IIs and Commodore 64s. Several generations, actually.

Given this comment of Dijkstra's and his (hilarious) swipe at PL/I in the article, here's a rather satisfying counterexample:

Up till then I had programmed mostly in Basic and PL/1.

http://wiki.alu.org/Paul_Graham's_Road_to_Lisp

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