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Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?

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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
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by: Alessandro Ogheri - Wed, 26 May 2021 12:49 UTC

Il giorno mercoledì 16 luglio 2014 alle 22:52:00 UTC+2 Georg Bauhaus ha scritto:
> On 16.07.14 19:47, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:40:50 AM UTC-7, jo...@peppermind.com wrote:
> >
> >> 10. Jean David Ichbiah apparently did not have a long beard - it has been observed that only programming languages whose inventor has a long beard become truly popular, although nobody knows why.
> >
> > Length is not a factor. Judging from a quick Google search, James Gosling's and Bjarne Stroustrup's beards are well-trimmed, not long. But Jean Ichbiah didn't have a beard at all.
> Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal -> C#) and Martin Odersky
> (Modula-17 -> Scala) have meanwhile spoiled the correlation.
>
> Grace_Hopper, Jean E Sammet, and Barbara Liskov also
> also challenge the legend of beards, I think.
Grace Hopper had a beard in fact and she worked for some time with Barnum Circus
She performed an act of cycling on an unicycle as bearded lady while coding in C on a terminal all at the same time...

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