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Article #5139Re: First Languages (yet again)
From: Bill.Stewart
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1988 05:10
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1988 05:10
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In article <2809@omepd> pcm@iwarpo3.UUCP (Phil C. Miller) writes: :The generalization inferred by this is that any programmer not exposed on :day one to declarative languages is brain-damaged. This covers 99.99999% :of programmers. Too bad, if only Donald Knuth and Per Brinch Hansen had seen :ML before they were ruined. I'd pay a lot for a version of Knuth's books with the algorithms translated into a reasonable language instead of MIX. I don't mean lisp, since his points about knowing what the machine's really doing are correct, but Algol had been around for more than 10 years, and it was *designed* for writing algorithms readably. Even his "English-language" descriptions are mostly spaghetti-code. -- # Thanks; # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ho95e!wcs From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: First Languages (yet again) Message-ID: <1983@ho95e.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Feb 88 05:10:04 GMT References: <4022@ames.arpa> <2400002@otter.HP.COM> <932@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <2781@omepd> <3730@megaron.arizona.edu> <2809@omepd> Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart,2G218,x0705,) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 15