Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As

The Lurking Suspicion That Something Could Be Simplified Is The World's Richest Source Of Rewarding Challenges.

Please Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Believing That I Am Terribly Dogmatical About The Go To Statement. I Have The Uncomfortable Feeling That Others Are Making A Religion Out Of It, As If The Conceptual Problems Of Programming Could Be Solved By A Single Trick, By A Simple Form Of Coding Discipline!

[though Computer Science Is A Fairly New Discipline, It Is Predominantly Based On The Cartesian World View. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra Has Pointed Out] A Scientific Discipline Emerges With The - Usually Rather Slow! - Discovery Of Which Aspects Can Be Meaningfully 'studied' In Isolation For The Sake Of Their Own Consistency.

Too Few People Recognize That The High Technology So Celebrated Today Is Essentially A Mathematical Technology.

Why Has Elegance Found So Little Following? That Is The Reality Of It. Elegance Has The Disadvantage, If That's What It Is, That Hard Work Is Needed To Achieve It And A Good Education To Appreciate It.