Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Niklaus Wirth Message-ID: <1255@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 03:59:30 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1255 Posted: Tue Sep 25 03:59:30 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 19:37:17 EDT References: <2488@pesnta.UUCP>, <9800017@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Tucumcari Divinity School Lines: 14 > 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????? (Approximate rendition from memory) Niklaus Wirth complains that, while Europeans pronounce his name "Neek-lous Virt", Americans mangle it into "Nick-les Worth". This just shows that Europeans call him by name, while Americans call him by value.... -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq "Jesus looked Death in the eye, and Death blinked first."