Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site polaris.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!cmcl2!philabs!polaris!herbie From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: Re: what's computer science Message-ID: <231@polaris.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 00:04:53 EST Article-I.D.: polaris.231 Posted: Sun Oct 27 00:04:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:31:41 EST References: <823@dataio.Dataio.UUCP> <6358@duke.UUCP> <827@dataio.Dataio.UUCP> <2392@sunybcs.UUCP> <260@yetti.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC Lines: 23 In article <260@yetti.UUCP> peter@yetti.UUCP (Runge) writes: >> And another trouble is that theory has not contributed much to computer >> science; it almost always comes after practice. Had Algol and Pascal >> been failures, theory would have quietly buried the corpses. >> -- >> Col. G. L. Sicherman > >And then there are those "failures" Algol, and Pascal! What exactly did they >fail at? As far as I know, both languages succeeded in large part in meeting >the goals of their designers and beyond. hmmm. i thought the Colonel said the opposite. Herb Chong... I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... New net address -- VNET,BITNET,NETNORTH,EARN: HERBIE AT YKTVMH UUCP: {allegra|cbosgd|cmcl2|decvax|ihnp4|seismo}!philabs!polaris!herbie CSNET: herbie.yktvmh@ibm-sj.csnet ARPA: herbie.yktvmh.ibm-sj.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa