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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
Subject: [9fans] Great Works in Programming Languages
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:37:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060315023733.1807210C69@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c0620603141409q22c071d4jeaac5ffb5c6c9e7f@mail.gmail.com>

this is $0.02^x, for some x<0.

intersting this rates "pretty great"
	Edsger W. Dijkstra. Go to statement considered harmful. 11(3):147-148, March 1968.

yet this rates "great many great"
	Donald E. Knuth. Structured programming with 'go to' statments. Communications of the ACM, 6(4):261-301, 1974.

"Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com> writes

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| Anyone see this list before and willing to give their $0.02? (In USD, please)
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| http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml
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| -Jack


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-15  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14 22:09 Jack Johnson
2006-03-15  2:22 ` geoff
2006-03-15  2:37 ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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