Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: New Wirth-less joke Message-ID: <1548@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 13:20:26 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1548 Posted: Sun Sep 30 13:20:26 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 05:49:27 EDT Lines: 28 [A line of small Wirth and no name] > Your wish is my command. From the 'fortune' data file: > Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his > name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into > (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, > but Americans call him by value. > -- "Trivia is important." Ron Christian (syntax bug) Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif. (...ios!wjvax!ron) . [end quote] Actually, the story is that the Europeans pronounce his first name "Nik-lowse", dialectical German for "nicht Laus" meaning "no bug" (i.e., "no louse"), whereas the Americans pronounce it "Nick-less" meaning invulnerable to bugs (some say "Nickle-less", meaning if he's so clever, why isn't he richer?). (Brought on by an overexposure to replies to a request for the real Wirth joke) Gordon Fisher