Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages.

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@@ -5440,6 +5440,26 @@ destitution of conscience.
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 Forms follow function, and often obliterate it.
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+FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is
+hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in
+mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
+
+PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than
+the solution set.
+
+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.
+
+The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
+regarded as a criminal offense.
+
+APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of
+the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a
+new generation of coding bums.
+
+Edsger Dijkstra's Evaluations of Programming Languages (c. 1982) 
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 fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.
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