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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release”

"Dijkstra also condemned COBOL as harmful to programmers’ thinking and its teaching as unacceptable."

In the same 1975 manuscript, Dijkstra criticizes COBOL in unusually forceful terms and associates its use with damage to programming thought. This places his BASIC criticism within a broader historical position on programming languages and their influence on intellectual habits.

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Source title How do we tell truths that might hurt?
Source authors Edsger W. Dijkstra
Source year 1975
Confidence high
Importance mid
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