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"?
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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. "
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
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