My other favorite Wirth joke (I believe he coined himself) plays fun with the pronunciation of his name: You can call me by name… VEERTH or by value… WORTH. From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Dan Cross Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:46 AM To: Michael Kjörling Cc: TUHS main list Subject: Re: [TUHS] Array index history On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 8 Jun 2017 08:49 -0400, from ches at cheswick.com (William Cheswick): > When he tests a microphone, Don Knuth says: > > “Testing zero, one, two.” As opposed to Niklaus Wirth, who presumably would rather say: "Testing lower bound, lower bound plus one, lower bound plus two." "Testing: the set N, defined so that there are some elements 'b' and 'e' in N with known values taken from the integers and such that b less than or equal 'e' and every other element is both the natural successor of an element in N and less than or equal to 'e'." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: