[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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