From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] A Discipline of Programming
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:26:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9845fd89f2b71ab39811835f0e9be044@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1afc3ca5d80c7130d54cdd41d9805836@collyer.net>
> On another topic, A Discipline of Programming isn't that old; its
> copyright date is 1976. I inherited my copy from a friend who found
> it impenetrable. I didn't get very far with it either.
Could this be a New World/Old World issue? I found the book hard to
assimilate, but the individual topics (I no longer have my copy)
extremely interesting. I assumed I did not have sufficient
theoretical background to make the most of it.
The more pragmatic New World approach to programming, epitomised by
the C language, is much more approachable, but has its own drawbacks
(I suspect that Perl is precisely where that road leads).
No doubt there is a middle road, but it is not in widespread use yet
(Limbo?).
++L
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2004-07-06 8:11 [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-07-06 11:21 ` bituman
2004-07-06 11:52 ` gabriel diaz
2004-07-06 12:14 ` Matthias Teege
2004-07-06 12:23 ` lucio
2004-07-06 12:33 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-06 15:20 ` matt
2004-07-06 15:20 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-07-07 9:11 ` Dave Lukes
2004-07-07 10:57 ` matt
2004-07-07 16:22 ` Dave Lukes
2004-07-07 16:58 ` jmk
2004-07-08 10:12 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-07-08 11:35 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-07 21:49 ` matt
2004-07-07 21:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-08 2:40 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-07-07 22:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-07 23:01 ` Jack Johnson
2004-07-07 23:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-07 23:25 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-07 23:54 ` jmk
2004-07-08 7:01 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-07-08 7:28 ` lucio
2004-07-08 23:26 ` vdharani
2004-07-08 18:25 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-07-08 23:43 ` vdharani
2004-07-08 18:43 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-07-08 18:34 ` Sape Mullender
2004-07-09 5:19 ` lucio
2004-07-09 5:48 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-07-09 6:05 ` lucio
2004-07-09 9:15 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-07-09 9:25 ` lucio
2004-07-09 10:11 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-07-09 10:26 ` lucio [this message]
2004-07-09 16:11 ` [9fans] A Discipline of Programming Jack Johnson
2004-07-09 10:34 ` [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9 lucio
2004-07-09 11:19 ` Nigel Roles
2004-07-09 22:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-09 12:46 ` ron minnich
2004-07-09 16:57 ` Jack Johnson
2004-07-09 20:39 ` ron minnich
2004-07-09 20:43 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-09 20:49 ` ron minnich
2004-07-09 20:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-12 12:10 ` OT: " Dave Lukes
2004-07-12 14:34 ` ron minnich
2004-07-09 20:51 ` Jack Johnson
2004-07-09 20:54 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-09 21:03 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-07-10 0:30 ` Dan Cross
2004-07-10 2:23 ` vdharani
2004-07-09 21:42 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-07-09 20:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-09 20:54 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-11 14:04 ` matt
2004-07-09 21:52 ` Nigel Roles
2004-07-10 2:30 ` vdharani
2004-07-09 12:45 ` ron minnich
2004-07-09 8:45 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-07-09 9:09 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-07-09 9:12 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-07-09 10:01 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-07-09 11:16 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-09 16:45 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-07-09 9:30 ` lucio
2004-07-09 9:59 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-07-10 2:43 ` vdharani
2004-07-09 22:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-09 22:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-10 4:25 ` ron minnich
2004-07-06 15:39 ` ron minnich
2004-07-06 15:41 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-06 15:44 ` ron minnich
2004-07-06 16:19 ` C H Forsyth
2004-07-07 5:46 ` lucio
2004-07-07 10:56 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-07-07 17:56 ` C H Forsyth
2004-07-07 18:09 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-07-07 18:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-07 23:30 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-07-08 7:16 ` lucio
2004-07-07 21:30 ` Nicholas Waples
2004-07-06 13:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
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