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From: mark powers <markp@panix.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?
Date: Wed,  2 Jan 2002 11:12:06 +0000
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in article <3C23EA53.BC3FBFD9@jps.net>, kim kubik  <chaotrope@jps.net> sez ...
|D De Villiers wrote:
|>
|> No Pascal implementation ? Pascal compiler etc etc ?
|>
|
|My (admittedly weak) memory is that there existed
|at one time a very short tome entitled something
|like "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming
|Language" and was part of the Bell Labs Technical
|Reports.
|

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/100.ps.gz
"Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language", Brian Kernighan, 1981

|But then I remember things that never existed and
|have forgotten most of what little I did know . . .
|
| - kim