Infocom on PDP-11

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Wed May 11 23:01:25 CDT 2005


> > 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>
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
>   Um ... what language *did* he like then?
>   -spc (Let me guess ... Lisp?)

I'm going to guess Pascal







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