Re: Beautifiul Mind: Thinking about Dijkstra


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"David Cressey" <dcressey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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.

In the '70s I was learning to speak :-)
I didn't run across Pascal until 1988.
If it were hard, I might have stumbled on it earlier. :-)

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

Almost everyone here learned programming by using Pascal since it was
available.
These years it was proposed to replace it with Oracle :-).

Pascal was and is a great language, and the first I learnt. I wish it
was still taught at an undergraduate level as an introduction to
programming instead of Java, which, as an educational tool, is
disastrous.

.

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