Quoting Colin Carter
Hi, I don't see much activity on this mailing list, so perhaps I am talking to myself. Perhaps I can stimulate a debate:
Programming standards have deteriorated significantly.
My argument: Some years ago academics developed design systems (Jordan etc) to stop young programmers writing spaghetti code (with lots of 'goto' statements). Then Knuth developed PASCAL to force young programmers to write properly structured code (goto statement not included).
You are right, programming education has deteriorated. Niklas Wirth developed Pascal. Donald Knuth wrote "The Art of Programming". And no language design can force young or old programmers to write properly structured code. The best thing it can do is make it easy to write structured code. Good code is even tougher. Jeffrey