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It's actually Dijkstra who said that, of cobol, in a rant that also talks about basic. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html
I don't think people were dumber in 1975, so this is just bullshit and hyperbole from a time when you could still be taken seriously if you wrote real programs in basic.