John Backus passes away...

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Wed Mar 21 17:07:35 CDT 2007


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Or multidimensional Funge-98.  8-)

I refuse to talk about software with the numbers 95, 98 , 2000
or hardware with the numbers 486, 586 or 9000.

My brain gets lost even with the name of some of those
crazy laguages.

> INTERCAL is still procedural and one-dimensional.

The joke here was INTERCAL has no goto statements
just COME FROM ones.

> Peace...  Sridhar





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