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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: mdw@excessus.demon.co.uk (Mark Wooding) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/09/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185507079 x-nntp-posting-host: excessus.demon.co.uk references: <01bb8df1$2e19d420$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <515o3b$d7h@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <01bb9fe6$7299d800$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com> <51knkn$j61@dub-news-svc-8.compuserve.com> <01bba638$e913f800$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com> <324844D7.1507@trw.com> <52ajct$fbu@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> followup-to: poster organization: Straylight Development Lab reply-to: mdw@excessus.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: > Can anyone please supply the source and correct form of this > quotation: `When someone says, ``I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,'' give him a lollipop.' -- Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming (1982) (Good ol' Don Knuth -- always gives his sources. That one is on page 365 of the TeXbook.) [Well off topic now -- followups to poster.] -- [mdw] `When our backs are against the wall, we shall turn and fight.' -- John Major