OT: reference book(s)

[Bill Vermillion]

In the last exciting episode of the filePro saga, 
Fairlight was heard to say:" 
if: Mon, Aug 23 21:31  
then: nm = Fairlight 
if:
then: show nm < "said:"  
Fairlight said: 

> Simon--er, no...it was Kenneth Brody--said:

> > But at least APL was never meant to be a "real" language, as I understand
> > it.  It was meant as a teaching (aka "paper only") language.

> So was Pascal, from what I read years ago, but it was quite
> useful if you didn't need system-level access. Alas, the latter
> is the entire reason I dumped Pascal for C.

That'w why Pascal was often said to be Wirthless.

Niklaus Wirth wrote Pascal as a training language and said his
modula-2 should be the one to be used for useful programming.

In the article "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" when Wirth
was asked how to pronounce his name he said "You can call me by
name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or you can call me by
value "Worth"'.

This meant to those who held the view that real programmers used
Fortran felt that Wirth was a quiche eater.

[I miss those old days of "my language is better than your
language" and all the stories that went with them.

Their mottos was "real programmers do it in Fortran. If you can't
do it in Fortran, do it in assembly.  If you can't do it in
assembly, it isn't worth doing".

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