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From: "Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>
To: "erik quanstrom" <quanstro@speakeasy.net>, <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] pascal, TeX
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:51:37 -0500
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Knuth didn't trust Pascal memory management for some reason, so he avoided
using records and "new".  He did most data structures in huge arrays of
integers with punny macros to fake up data structures inside them.  It was
Pascal with Fortran for data structuring...

> knuth lives on his own planet. i believe it's called
> "the art of computer programming." ;-)
> also, due TeX's pascal heratage, it has an ungodly number
> of compiled-in limits.