“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 W.Dijkstra
This quote ran through my head today after I realized (after 5 minutes of head scratching) why this line was throwing an exception in javascript:
var sHeading = oInput(0);
Parenthesis for array indexing? Damn you VB!