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		themadturk 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thomas E. Kurtz has died He probably thought programming students should be taught Pascal, the academic language he pioneered. It is quite different from BASIC.

Jtsummers 9 months ago [–]

Pascal was Wirth, not Dijkstra.

themadturk 9 months ago | [–]

Sorry, misremembering my meager computing history...

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