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by microtherion 2059 days ago
BASIC got a whole generation of people interested in programming.

I've yet to meet somebody who got interested in computers through correctness proofs.
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easytiger 2059 days ago
At university my formal methods lecturer once said, presumably in jest, "no software developer should be allowed to use an actual computer until they are 40 years old."
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