In this case, I suppose call-by-reference would be "the designer of PASCAL."
MPF On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:59:42 -0400, Dan Monjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:21:08 AM -0400 Matt Frye > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, it's true that a better method of explaining Jensen's device is > > by comparing it to call-by-reference. Specifically, that > > call-by-reference is now part of standard C and call-by-name isn't. > > Not directly anyhow. > > >From > <http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/courses/CS251/resources/real_programmers.html> > > "Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of PASCAL, gave a talk once at which he was > asked "How do you pronounce your name?". He replied, "You can either call > me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'."" > > -- > Dan Monjar > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
