Re: Beautifiul Mind: Thinking about Dijkstra
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:05:09 +0300
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"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Rich Ryan" <rryan_at_cshore.com> wrote in message
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> > I'm a programmer from the mid 70's. At that time the language of choice
> was
> > Pascal and I think PL1. Both were very expressive in an algothrimic way.
> The
> > seminal work was "A Discipline of Programming". And also ""The Elements
> of
> > Programming Style" ala Strunk and White.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> In the mid '70s, I was doing some extracurricular programming in Algol.
I
> didn't run across Pascal until 1980. A few years later, I ran across a
> book, "Pascal with Style". Very good book. I think we should be
teaching
> elements of style to beginnig programmers.
In the '70s I was learning to speak :-)
I didn't run across Pascal until 1988.
If it were hard, I might have stumbled on it earlier. :-)
> I think Pascal was (is) a good language. I wish there were a language
that
> does for OOP what Pascal did for structured programming.
Almost everyone here learned programming by using Pascal since it was
available.
These years it was proposed to replace it with Oracle :-).
Received on Fri Apr 28 2006 - 14:05:09 CEST