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* [TUHS] Knuth and Pascal (was "Were cron and at ...")
@ 2020-12-15 11:45 M Douglas McIlroy
  2020-12-15 13:04 ` Toby Thain
  2020-12-15 19:18 ` Bakul Shah
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: M Douglas McIlroy @ 2020-12-15 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Off topic, but too much fun to pass up.

>> You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it, and then rewrote it in your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).

> Now why didn't Don Knuth think of that for TeX?

I'm glad he didn't. He might have written it in Mix. Knuth once said
he didn't believe in higher-level languages. Of course he knew more
about them than anybody else and was CACM's associate editor for the
subject--like a minister who doesn't believe in God.

Doug

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