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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again!
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Date: 23 Jul 90 17:33:22 GMT
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In article <388@e2big.mko.dec.com>, gillett@ceomax..dec.com (Christopher Gillett) writes:
>>>My favorite example of the anti-intellectual current in CS is a paper by
>>>a very famous computer scientist in which he states that the teaching of
>>>certain computer languages should be treated as a criminal act.  
>>
>>Dijkstra, wasn't it, on either Fortran or BASIC?  
>>
>Based on the mail I got from folks regarding this question, it was
>Dijkstra, on COBOL.

What a good idea. I'd even support a Constitutional amendment on it ;-)