Re: Beautifiul Mind: Thinking about Dijkstra

David Cressey wrote:
"Rich Ryan" <rryan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm a programmer from the mid 70's. At that time the language of choice
was
Pascal and I think PL1. Both were very expressive in an algothrimic way.
The
seminal work was "A Discipline of Programming". And also ""The Elements
of
Programming Style" ala Strunk and White.

Rich

In the mid '70s, I was doing some extracurricular programming in Algol. I
didn't run across Pascal until 1980. A few years later, I ran across a
book, "Pascal with Style". Very good book. I think we should be teaching
elements of style to beginnig programmers.

I think Pascal was (is) a good language. I wish there were a language that
does for OOP what Pascal did for structured programming.

Reaches for "Pascal User Manual and Report 2nd Edition" published by Springer-Verlag 1978 evoking memories of a prof mad about recursion and Pascal as the language to teach it! It looks like it was typeset on a CDC 132 column line printer and diagrammed by hand.

Cost $8.00 AUD in 1979, value...priceless!

Cheers, Frank.
.

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