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

Thomas Paulsen thomas.paulsen at firemail.de
Tue Dec 15 08:23:12 AEST 2020


for pascal Niklaus Emil Wirth is the key and not Ken&Dennis.

--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
Von: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
Datum: 14.12.2020 21:28:01
An: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Betreff: Re: [TUHS] Were cron and at done at the same time? Or one before  the other?

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:

> please don’t blame c++ on pascal folks. stroustrup had nothing to do

> with pascal.  

I certainly hope not; Pascal was meant to be a teaching language, not a

production language.  As for C++, well, what can I say?  It should've been

called C-- ...

You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it, and then rewrote it in

your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).

-- Dave




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