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by Jtsummers 907 days ago
Dijkstra wrote that in 1975 [1]. I don't think it had a major hand in killing off BASIC considering that "peak" BASIC occurred later with the home computer market. The vast majority of home computer users had no clue who Dijkstra was as they happily typed BASIC listings from various magazines and books.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/E... - 18th June 1975