From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:15:00 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: the joke was extended on my Uni course to include "call by reference" but I forget what it was. probably "hey! YOU" -G On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:12 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > >> >> His name is pronounced "vurt" but he would accept "worth", and he joked >> that you could call him by name or by value (you need to know ALGOL to >> understand). > > ​The actual joke was Europeans called him by name(ni-klaus vurt) and > Americans by value [nickel-less worth].​ > ᐧ > ᐧ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: