[cctalk] Re: Random items on Pascal #6

2024-05-09 Thread Mike Katz via cctalk
Nicholas Wirth in his paper on Modula-2 about fixing the flaws in Pascal. In planning Modula-2, I saw it as a new version of Pascal, updated to the requirements of the time, and I seized the opportunity to correct various mistakes in Pascal’s design, such as, for example, the syntactic

[cctalk] Re: Random items on Pascal #6

2024-05-09 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
OK This seems to be the one that the list choked on (possibly due to special quote characters? On Thu, May 9, 2024, 2:07 AM david barto via cctalk wrote: At Ken Bowles retirement from UCSD (Ken was the lead of the UCSD Pascal Project) he related a story that IBM came to UCSD after being