Does Computer Science Need Computers?

Quanta Magazine notes that pioneering computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra, who received the nineteen seventy‑two A.M. Turing Award, was famously opinionated about programming languages. He once called Fortran “the infantile disorder” and warned that “the use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a…” — remarks that underline his enduring skepticism toward certain language curricula.

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