[TUHS] Were cron and at done at the same time? Or one before the other?

Nemo Nusquam cym224 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 09:46:13 AEST 2020


On 12/09/20 12:42, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:08 AM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org 
> <mailto:bakul at iitbombay.org>> wrote:
>
>     Ah .. but I don’t know if they did! The implication that Pascal
>     folks like complexity seems strange as Pascal is far simpler than
>     C++ (not much larger than C) and C++ is no more type safe than C
>     (both are less type safe than Pascal). Anyway I will stop now!
>
>
> I was one of the people who happily left Pascal behind to move to C.  
> But in retrospect, I think the computing world would've been better 
> off with Pascal, modified slightly to allow passing variable-length 
> arrays (like TurboPascal).

As Wirth wrote, in retrospect he should have called it Pascal-2, not 
Modula-2.  [COFF, COFF]

N.
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