More Reason Not To Learn A Programming Language After All

[nemorathwald]

The Jargon Files has this to say about the programming language BASIC:
A programming language ... which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers. ... It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
I learned basic on the Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I am so screwed.

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[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

I started with Atari basic, then went to Apple basic, 65C02 assembly, Visual Basic, SQL, C++, PHP, Java, and am looking at Python. Don't worry about it. :)