Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: REAL PROGRAMMERS Message-ID: <564@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 10:40:42 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.564 Posted: Sun Sep 23 10:40:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 05:45:28 EDT References: <2488@pesnta.UUCP>, <9800017@acf4.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 15 > Now, does anyone have the Wirth joke about pascal, you know, the one > that talks about how some people pronounce his name ""virth"", some > ""worth"".... etch, etc????? The joke that Wirth told on himself was that the Europeans call him by name, and the Americans call him by value. Think about it. His full name is Niklaus Wirth. -- "Biblical signoffs are for the smug." Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)