XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 02:40:13 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
      
   >    Pascal was not a 'theoretical' lang ... Prof Nick actually meant it   
   >    to WORK in the real world.   
      
   I disagree with that. Wirth was mostly concerned with constructing   
   didactic languages. The joke about the original implementatino was it is a   
   good language for telling itself secrets since there is no i/o.   
      
   Students learned it and extended it when they had to use it in the real   
   world. Lisp has a similar history. Common Lisp and its descendants violate   
   the purity of the Lisp concept but get things done.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)