"Martijn Faassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul McGuire wrote: [snip]
I would characterize the 80's as the transitional decade from structured programming (which really started to hit its stride when Djikstra
published
<snip - it's "Dijkstra" not "Djikstra", you dolt! :)>"Use of GOTO Considered Harmful") to OOP, and that OOP wasn't really "joyful" until the early-to-mid 90's.
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Yikes! (or better, "Jikes!" or even "Yijkes!"?) - my bad. And he was on faculty at UT right here in Austin, too.
It's a very common mistake I've seen so often that for a while I wondered whether his name really *was* Djikstra, but I knew he was Dutch and that it couldn't be so. That the PSU picked you for its disclosure is just a random coincidence, I'm sure.. :)
Regards,
Martijn
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