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| The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. -- Blaise Pascal | |
| A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS. -- Fred Brooks | |
| Pascal is a language for children wanting to be naughty. -- Dr. Kasi Ananthanarayanan | |
| Pascal is not a high-level language. -- Steven Feiner | |
| "Pascal is Pascal is Pascal is dog meat." -- M. Devine and P. Larson, Computer Science 340 | |
| Unix is a lot more complicated (than CP/M) of course -- the typical Unix hacker can never remember what the PRINT command is called this week -- but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do serious work on Unix systems; they send jokes around the world on USENET or write adventure games and research papers. -- E. Post "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal", Datamation, 7/83 | |
| Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? | |
| Uncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the calculation. - Blaise Pascal | |
| A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS. - Fred Brooks, Jr. | |
| The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. -- Blaise Pascal | |
| The essential ideas of Algol 68 were that the whole language should be precisely defined and that all the pieces should fit together smoothly. The basic idea behind Pascal was that it didn't matter how vague the language specification was (it took *years* to clarify) or how many rough edges there were, as long as the CDC Pascal compiler was fast. -- Richard A. O'Keefe | |
| C, n: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. -- Ray Simard | |
| Pascal Users: The Pascal system will be replaced next Tuesday by Cobol. Please modify your programs accordingly. | |
| Pascal Users: To show respect for the 313th anniversary (tomorrow) of the death of Blaise Pascal, your programs will be run at half speed. | |
| Pascal: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it. -- Datamation, January 15, 1984 | |
| I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | |
| In the early morning queue, With a listing in my hand. With a worry in my heart, There on terminal number 9, Waitin' here in CERAS-land. Pascal run all set to go. I'm a long way from sleep, But I'm waitin' in the queue, How I miss a good meal so. With this code that ever grows. In the early mornin' queue, Now the lobby chairs are soft, With no place to go. But that can't make the queue move fast. Hey, there it goes my friend, I've moved up one at last. -- Ernest Adams, "Early Morning Queue", to "Early Morning Rain" by G. Lightfoot | |
| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal | |
| The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal | |
