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Litwr
on 2008-10-21
04:19:53
 Re: YABE!

I couldn't agree with famous programmer Edsger Dijkstra who said "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration *. But your words give me a point to his position. wink I don't know exactly whether this error presents in the first Basic of 60s or it is caused by insufficient education level of Bill Gates at 1975. However the Basic predecessor Fortran has correct power operation. Yes, this is *global* error but this is error because it breaks the mathematical rules!



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