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by indymike 908 days ago
"Teamonkey's law" sounds good to me. Whenever BASIC is mentioned, someone will invoke Dijkstra's rant.

>If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript.

I'm not sure about that. The only language that I felt led to bad things from developers was perl, mainly because it was so difficult to read later.

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> mainly because it was so difficult to read later

But it wasn't, it was just so easy to write badly early.