From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a1c64628a09855b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: John McCabe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lack of formal syntax undermines Ada Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:51:01 +0100 Message-ID: <2os304dte7bu52t4ql3avpba946birp2r1@4ax.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1208087476 8242 80.176.146.77 (13 Apr 2008 11:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:51:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20907 Date: 2008-04-13T12:51:01+01:00 List-Id: "(see below)" wrote: >>>> Bill - as a matter of interest, are you the "Findlay & Watt" Pascal >>>> bloke? >>> >>> Indeed I am. >>> >>> Also the "Watt, Wichmann and Findlay" Ada Bloke. 8-) >> >> That was after my time, I studied Electronics at Glasgow Uni 1983-87, > >"Watt, Wichmann and Findlay" came out in '87 (so long ago!), >but I take your point. > >> and we were taught Pascal by the computing department using your book >> - Second Edition! > >I know. >We've had this conversation here in c.l.a before, you know. >And, unlike me, you are too young to be having a "senior moment". >8-) What, me and you? Weird! It's been a long time since I was on here regularly though, so easily forgotten :-) >Did you use cards on the ICL 2976 for your labs? No. We used a VAX. I vaguely remember we may have used cards once, in 83, but I think that was for FORTRAN! As a matter of interest, have I already asked you if you could remember who we might have been taught by? It was an old, miserable guy who wore tweed a lot as far as I can remember. >Unlike the first edition of "Pascal", which we typeset and made the >camera-ready copy for ourselves, using nroff and a Diablo Hytype daisywheel >printer, the 2nd was "professionally" typeset at the publisher's insistence. >They inserted a space between the ':' and the '=' of every assignment, >and proceeded to expand it to arbitrary widths by justifying every line. >Virtually every page of the galleys had to be re-set. LOL - Nightmare!