From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 04:09:47 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28391.1008266987@apnic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:02:24 -0500." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112131300220.19799-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
> > I think a macro processor remains a fundamentally good thing. Else
> > how could Bourne have programmed his shell in Pascal?
>
> ITYM Algol-68.
>
correctamundo. my call by reference to the name failed to get the right value.
God, I never came to terms with that language. anything beyond a 3 line
hello world was beyond me. Still, that two lines more than the APL I wrote.
cheers
-George
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 17:38 erik quanstrom
2001-12-13 17:51 ` Howard Trickey
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-13 17:56 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:02 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-13 18:09 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2001-12-13 18:11 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-13 18:18 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:21 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-14 7:19 ` paurea
2001-12-14 8:07 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 17:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-13 18:55 ` Martin Harriss
2001-12-13 21:20 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-18 9:47 ` Chet Ramey
2001-12-14 0:39 ` Dan Cross
2001-12-13 19:02 forsyth
2001-12-14 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-14 17:37 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-14 1:42 geoff
2001-12-14 17:40 forsyth
2001-12-17 10:15 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-12-14 17:59 bwc
2001-12-14 18:03 rob pike
2001-12-14 17:43 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-14 18:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-14 18:22 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-16 19:41 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-12-17 8:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-12-18 0:37 okamoto
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