12 May
2005
12 May
'05
8:09 a.m.
At 11:04 PM -0400 5/11/05, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once
stated:
No, I believe that was around the time he was pushing Modula-2 as a
teaching tool.
I saved that SIGPlan Notices issue too as I really enjoyed those
quotes. Think Intel would pay $5K for that?
John
Most particularly Dijkstra.
But you might enjoy some of his other statements, such as:
<QUOTE>
FORTRAN --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 20 years old, is ...
PL/I --"the fatal disease"-- belongs more to the problem set than ...
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, ...
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language ...
</QUOTE>
Um ... what language *did* he like then?
-spc (Let me guess ... Lisp?)