Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: , which was critical of several programming languages contemporaneous with COBOL , computer scientist and Turing Award recipient Edsger Dijkstra remarked that `` The use of COBOL cripples the mind ; its teaching should , therefore , be regarded as a criminal offense . ''
Simplified: , computer scientist and Turing Award recipient Edsger Dijkstra remarked that `` The use of COBOL cripples the mind ; its teaching should , therefore , be regarded as a criminal offense . ''