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    FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
    PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
    It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
    The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
    APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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