[Wittrs] Re: When is "brain talk" really dualism? (nominalism, yet again)

  • From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:11:41 -0700

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, kirby urner<kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<< SNIP >>

>> (this is not a trick question)
>>
>> Josh
>
> Remember what Djikstra said about BASIC:  if you've ever learned it,
> you're likely never going to learn to program thanks to the brain
> damage you'll have experienced (paraphrase).  As long as we keep
> giving examples in Python and not BASIC, I think we'll be moving in a
> positive direction here.
>
> Kirby
>

Loose end:

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college
pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the
teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offense: it mutilates
the mind beyond recovery.

    * Source: EWD898: The threats to computing science

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra

Kirby

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