From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 23:49:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE4016A4B3; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D69443FB1; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B660179821; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:45 +0200 (MEST) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 78F0D9C663; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (dwp.des.no [10.0.0.4]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id A0B5D9ABBA; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 7F1B0B84A; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:41 +0200 (CEST) To: deischen@freebsd.org References: From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:49:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Daniel Eischen's message of "Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:08:43 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programming language inventor or serial killer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:49:49 -0000 Daniel Eischen writes: > Why anyone would want to associate programming language > inventors with serial killers, I don't know... Probably because of serial programming language inventors like Niklaus Wirth: Pascal, Modula, Modula 2, Modula 3, Oberon... (though they're arguably all the same language at different stages of development) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no