Comment YES (Score 1) 20
YES! I've been preaching this for 40 years.
*Tried to post in all-caps but was filtered. I feel strongly about this topic and want to YELL about it.
PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5