Infocom on PDP-11

[John A. Dundas III]

At 11:04 PM -0400 5/11/05, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
>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?)

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