Infocom on PDP-11

Wed May 11 22:04:02 CDT 2005

It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once stated:
> 
> 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?)