OT: reference book(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:31:57PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> 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.

It's not Brian Kernighan's favorite language either:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html

Cheers,
-- jra
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