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Date: Fri,  9 Jul 2004 12:26:31 +0200
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Subject: [9fans] A Discipline of Programming
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> 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