From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-03-27T11:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the word to conventional programmers


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Phlip wrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > Which reminds me...
> > "GOTO statement considered harmful"
> >  -- Source: title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968)
> Uh, that title was by an editor... Apocryphally...

Not just any editor: it was Mr. PASCAL himself, Niklas Wirth. (or so I
read)

> > "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which
> could only > have originated in California." -- Dijkstra
> Hey, suck my Dijk.

Note that Dijk is pronounced Dyke, and furthermore, that erotic literature
depicting sapphic women turning to the "good side" by being
straight-curious, is not a genre that survived the sixties.

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