Re: Beautifiul Mind: Thinking about Dijkstra
From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:08:09 GMT
Message-ID: <Zso4g.18170$vy1.8477_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
> was
> The
> of
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> In the mid '70s, I was doing some extracurricular programming in Algol. I
> didn't run across Pascal until 1980. A few years later, I ran across a
> book, "Pascal with Style". Very good book. I think we should be teaching
> elements of style to beginnig programmers.
>
> I think Pascal was (is) a good language. I wish there were a language that
> does for OOP what Pascal did for structured programming.
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:08:09 GMT
Message-ID: <Zso4g.18170$vy1.8477_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
David Cressey wrote:
> "Rich Ryan" <rryan_at_cshore.com> wrote in message
> news:5kb4g.11880$%m4.8463_at_newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
>> 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.
>
> I think Pascal was (is) a good language. I wish there were a language that
> does for OOP what Pascal did for structured programming.
Reaches for "Pascal User Manual and Report 2nd Edition" published by Springer-Verlag 1978 evoking memories of a prof mad about recursion and Pascal as the language to teach it! It looks like it was typeset on a CDC 132 column line printer and diagrammed by hand.
Cost $8.00 AUD in 1979, value...priceless!
Cheers, Frank. Received on Fri Apr 28 2006 - 15:08:09 CEST