On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 02:10 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:


At 02:32 PM 2/26/03 +0000, William T Goodall wrote:

I much prefer C to Pascal. Or Modula-2 or Ada or any of those other B&D languages.



"B&D"?



Imagining Whips And Chains In The Computer Room Maru

From "The new Hackers Dictionary" Ed Eric Raymond


"bondage-and-discipline language. A language (Such as Pascal, Ada, APL or Prolog) that, although ostensibly general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an author's theory of 'right programming' even though said theory is demonstrably inadequate for systems hacking or even vanilla general-purpose programming. "

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A computer without Windows is like a cake without mustard. - anonymous

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