Comment by DonHopkins

"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." -Edsger Dijkstra

"Comfy is easy for kids and adults to pick up. Modeled loosely after the classic BASIC computer language and designed for early readers, Comfy's linguistic rules are easy to teach and to type-in on desktop, tablet, and mobile." -David Woldrich

"Our public education is so pozzed in Dem/Blue states, though; that has nothing to do with ethnic makeup in the students. Bloated budgets fueling insidious DEI agendas with openly consumer-hostile teachers unions. Maybe in sane states it's better." -David Woldrich

"I am so pleased to see such low snarkiness levels overall in a discussion regarding Ayn Rand. There is a lot not to like about the harshness of Randian principles, but I find the ideal she paints of the human condition compelling." -David Woldrich

"White supremacy is a left wing media fiction; it lives only in wojack memes as far as I can tell." -David Woldrich

"You sound vaccinated." -David Woldrich

"Was there projection? Some, but talking past the sale is a persuasion technique and I wasn't in the mood to argue." -David Woldrich [showdead=true] https://www.youtube.com/live/Yrcapy2e8Fs

"we like to keep our variables very short like one or two letters in the name" -David Woldrich

"so we want to keep them short so keep them to one or two characters long if you can help it" -David Woldrich

Even if all the Russian bot servers are currently offline and on fire right now, we still have you to carry Putin's water, mindlessly parrot Trump's "Russia Russia Russia", victim-blame Ukraine for being invaded, and mentally mutilate children beyond hope of regeneration.