To: dayglored
"Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" essay? I imagine it is up there with "Pretty Poly Nomial."
I actually retro-acronymed (verbicide, I know), "Pascal" when I was a lad (and introduced to The Church Of The Structured Algorithm): People Against Stupid Compilers And Languages.
To this day I think it was my idea (circa 1978)
119 posted on
09/09/2006 1:22:53 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(the war on poverty should include health club memberships for the morbidly poor)
To: freedumb2003
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People Against Stupid Compilers And Languages. To this day I think it was my idea (circa 1978) Could well be. That's not half bad!
123 posted on
09/09/2006 1:42:03 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: freedumb2003
People Against Stupid Compilers And Languages.I think the stupidest language I ever ran across was an abomination called "whitespace". The language elements were all composed of "whitespace" characters (space, tab, newline, etc).
128 posted on
09/09/2006 3:08:14 PM PDT by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: freedumb2003; dayglored
Man, that was waaaaaayyy before I was born...
OTOH, the university library has books on FORTRAN and Pascal (albeit pretty musty and dusty)...
133 posted on
09/09/2006 7:53:38 PM PDT by
rzeznikj at stout
(ASCII and ye shall receive... (II Computers 3:14))
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