30th Anniversary of Pascal

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:37PM from the get-yer-code-on dept.

GrokSoup writes "UC San Diego is holding a public symposium on Friday, October 22nd, honoring the 30th anniversary of the Pascal programming language. Oh the memories of undergraduate bubble-sorts ..."

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Niklaus Wirth (Score:5, Funny)

by Black Parrot ( 19622 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:42PM (#10591909)

"Europeans call me by name, Americans by value."

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Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)

by GillBates0 ( 664202 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:42PM (#10591911) Homepage Journal

program Anniversary; begin writeln ('Happy 30th Anniversary Pascal. You roxxorzz'); end.

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Bah! (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:42PM (#10591913)

Any project without line numbers is not a *real* project!

These kids today...

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30th anniversary... (Score:5, Funny)

by mwheeler01 ( 625017 ) writes: <`matthew.l.wheeler' `at' `gmail.com'> on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:43PM (#10591918)

Hmmm and D&D just turned 30 too... coincidence?

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Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:43PM (#10591919)

You must be new here.

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Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)

by Big Mark ( 575945 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:45PM (#10591961)

Flippin' middle-agers and their line numbers, back in the days of fortran we had whitespace-sensitive code and we were grateful for what we had!

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Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:48PM (#10591995)

i for one welcome our jeffery overlord.

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Hi, Jeffrey (Score:4, Funny)

by ggvaidya ( 747058 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:50PM (#10592021) Homepage Journal

Welcome to Slashdot!
All your productivity are now belong to CmdrTaco [slashdot.org]. Hope you like it here!

Cheers,
Gaurav

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Re:Jefferey's first post (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:54PM (#10592076)

Damn dude, you almost got a first post first post!

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Trademark Violation (Score:2, Funny)

by TheGilmanator ( 745322 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:55PM (#10592092) Homepage

I'm sorry, but did you clear the use of the trademarked "UC" with the state of California before posting it?
Wouldn't want to get shut down [slashdot.org], would you?

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Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @04:55PM (#10592093)

Hello an enjoy your stay. Remember, you are more than just a number to us, user 810339.

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Re:30th anniversary... (Score:5, Funny)

by Nom du Keyboard ( 633989 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:05PM (#10592233)

D&D just turned 30 too... coincidence?
Only if the right brain didn't know what the left brain was doing at the time.

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Re:What do they teach in undergrad now? (Score:2, Funny)

by strictfoo ( 805322 ) writes: <strictfoo-signup&yahoo,com> on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:08PM (#10592272) Journal

At the University of Minnesota they start you with Scheme.

Yes, you read that right. Scheme. The language guranteed to fuck you up if you've by some strange chance of fate actually programmed before getting to the school. Why a school, with over 50,000 people attending (second largest in the US now) and a fairly large IT department does that is beyond me. Oh wait... no it isn't. They need to employ their crazy AI professors who bust a nut using it.

Hell, I transfered into there as a CS junior and the still made me take the stupid class. (FUCK(SCHEME)) or something.

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To celebrate, (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:09PM (#10592293)

I'm going to go out tomorrow to buy some string.

I'll cut off pieces, and at one end of each piece, write down how long that particular piece is. :)

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Re:Hey, it legitimized the PC (Score:2, Funny)

by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes: <slashdot@nosPAm.jawtheshark.com> on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:20PM (#10592400) Homepage Journal

Sorry... Can't resist:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger Dijkstra

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Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:4, Funny)

by AndroidCat ( 229562 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:28PM (#10592500) Homepage

For your first quest, locate Slashdotter #810340 and razz him for being new here.

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I don't think this is correct... (Score:2, Funny)

by kjones692 ( 805101 ) writes: <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rezinagrobyc.eht]> on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:30PM (#10592513)

There have been newtons per square meter for much longer than 30 years...

*ducks*

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Today (Score:5, Funny)

by GeekDork ( 194851 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:36PM (#10592575)

Today, we have Python, and whitespace-sensitive code is fucking BACK!

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Re:30th anniversary... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:41PM (#10592624)

Okay, show of hands. How many people's first program was a character sheet generator?

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Welcome (Score:5, Funny)

by lildogie ( 54998 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:48PM (#10592705)

> this is also my first post,
> so i wish to formally introduce myself to the /. community!

Welcome to Slashdot.

Just be careful with the words "first post!"

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Re:What do they teach in undergrad now? (Score:3, Funny)

by Moby Cock ( 771358 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:53PM (#10592751) Homepage

I had one for BASIC programming on my C64 and then AMIGA. It told me how to make a bunch of silly little games. It was useful in helping me understand more about computers but now I'm addicted to video games.....

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Re:More serious apps... (Score:2, Funny)

by BorgCopyeditor ( 590345 ) writes: on Thursday October 21, 2004 @06:18PM (#10592949)

Bah! 255 bytes ought to be enough for anybody.

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Re:More serious apps... (Score:5, Funny)

by Lars T. ( 470328 ) writes: <Lars,Traeger&googlemail,com> on Thursday October 21, 2004 @07:01PM (#10593303) Journal

Two words: signed char -Hell yeah, now that makes sense.

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Niklaus Wirth (Score:5, Funny)

Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)

Bah! (Score:0, Funny)

30th anniversary... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:4, Funny)

Hi, Jeffrey (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Jefferey's first post (Score:1, Funny)

Trademark Violation (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:30th anniversary... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What do they teach in undergrad now? (Score:2, Funny)

To celebrate, (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Hey, it legitimized the PC (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Loved it!!!! (Score:4, Funny)

I don't think this is correct... (Score:2, Funny)

Today (Score:5, Funny)

Re:30th anniversary... (Score:2, Funny)

Welcome (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What do they teach in undergrad now? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:More serious apps... (Score:2, Funny)

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