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| Peter Flass to All |
| Re: naughty Python |
| 02 Jan 26 14:51:11 |
XPost: alt.folklore.computers From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com On 1/2/26 13:18, c186282 wrote: > On 1/2/26 14:29, rbowman wrote: >> 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. > > Must have been a damned early version. > > Old ALGOL had no I/O however. Didn't show up > until what, '68 ? 58 if you count Burroughs. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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