From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:45:30 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Unix stories
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On 1 January 2017 at 11:50, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote (in part):
> Which just goes to provide support for my long-term contention, that language
> features can't help a bad programmer, or prevent them from writing garbage.

Indeed. In one of his books, Wirth laments about programmers proudly
showing him terrible code written in Pascal and goes on to say the
same thing.

N.