>>18
It's very likely that learning that shit language
did make it harder to teach people proper programming principles afterwards, just like it would with people getting their brains rotten by PHP today, or imperative programming throughout history.
>>19
He made a practical and novel OS back when the commercial offerings were shit. Believe it or not, the man actually wrote programs and was fond of engineering, thus his distaste for the shit everyone was always trying to pass for such.