From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24578 invoked from network); 26 May 2020 20:00:49 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 May 2020 20:00:49 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2824B9C983; Wed, 27 May 2020 06:00:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812BB9C765; Wed, 27 May 2020 06:00:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B0D709C765; Wed, 27 May 2020 06:00:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from fourwinds.com (fourwinds.com [63.64.179.162]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65D329C5EC for ; Wed, 27 May 2020 06:00:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 04QK0Rlh2097998 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 26 May 2020 13:00:27 -0700 Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (jon@localhost) by darkstar.fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 04QK0Rh52097995 for ; Tue, 26 May 2020 13:00:27 -0700 Message-Id: <202005262000.04QK0Rh52097995@darkstar.fourwinds.com> From: Jon Steinhart To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-reply-to: References: <8a2e9b1b-8890-a783-5b53-c8480c070f2e@telegraphics.com.au> <9e5933a166ece32b4fb17c6bbb563873@firemail.de> Comments: In-reply-to Dan Cross message dated "Tue, 26 May 2020 15:55:39 -0400." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2097993.1590523227.1@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 13:00:27 -0700 X-JON-SPAM: local delivery Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Dan Cross writes: > > Of course Pascal was designed specifically for teaching. I learned it in > high school ... I had a different experience; I learned C in high school at BTL and then took my first programming class in college which was Pascal and I kept finding it extremely difficult to use because it was so much less flexible than C. Until I took that class it had never even occurred to me that people would write books about the topic as I had leaned from technical memoranda. There were two books in this class, Wirth's and Fundamental Algorithms. Got Don to sign my copy a few years ago which he said he wouldn't do unless it looked really used. Jon