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ISayMoo
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History of computing according to Wirth

May 26th, 2019, 4:06 pm

 
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Re: History of computing according to Wirth

May 26th, 2019, 6:56 pm

That was a pretty good read. Not knowing much to begin with, I learnt some things directly, and it also prompted me to look up a few more items. 
 
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Re: History of computing according to Wirth

June 4th, 2019, 1:09 pm

Agreed. Very interesting. I did not who Wirth was, so was merrily reading it, realised that the person knew a thing or two about computing and hence looked him up. Interesting that he criticised C (and also interesting on further review Ritchie's comments).
 
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Re: History of computing according to Wirth

June 23rd, 2019, 11:07 am

When the bug is a slug.

Slug blamed for Japan railway chaos

https://www.rte.ie/news/asia/2019/0623/ ... lway-slug/