Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : Dr. What
Date : Tue Jan 16 2024 07:24 am

-=> tenser wrote to Dr. What <=-

 DW> I used to read "Programming Pearls" in the back issues of the Journal of
 DW> the ACM back in college and had picked up the book.  Sadly, I let it go
 DW> a long time ago.

 te> I think you meant Communications of the ACM; JACM is mostly
 te> theory.  :-)

I'm not sure.  By the time I actually joined the ACM, I got Communications. 
But I'm pretty sure that the back issues I read were called "Journals of the
ACM".  But I'm uncertain which had "Programming Pearls", but I think it was
Communications.

One of the things that surprises me as I get into vintage computers is how much
I mis-remember.

 te> Bwk, but yeah.  One of the problems was that they were
 te> working in the context of standard Pascal, so they didn't
 te> have some of the nice-ities that say Turbo Pascal brought
 te> to the language (like a string type).  It would have been
 te> interesting to see a version of Software Tools in e.g.
 te> Oberon.

Ya, the Software Tools was mainly about writing unix-c-like stuff in various
languages.  But C was becoming the dominate tool by then and Software Tools in
OtherLanguage wasn't that much in demand.


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