Re: How to Remove duplicates line in the txt files

Ted Davis (tdavis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:38:52 +0000, Richard Bonner wrote:

> > Ted Davis (tdavis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> >> BASIC has ruined a vast number of larval programmers.  
> >> T.E.D.
> > 
> > ***   How so, Ted? I feel any programming language is valid if it does
> > what one wants.

> I was paraphrasing Edsger W. Dijkstra - in _Selected Writings on
> Computing: A Personal Perspective_,  he said "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."

***   Not being a programmer, I an unable to see the problem. Can't
students learn more than one style and become proficient in all?


> He had a particular dislike for GOTO.
(Snip)

> -- 
> T.E.D.

***   Without getting in depth, how are subroutines handled in languages
without GOTO?

         Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/