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Article #99821

Re: Female Computer Pioneers - May 7

#99821
From: pete@fenelon.com
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 21:04
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jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
> thing.  The guy who wrote the PASCAL program also had
> no idea what I/O meant.

This is a very common trait of programmers who spend too long in Pascal.
The language and most of the pedagogical material that's grown up around
it ignores real-world I/O, and hence so do their programs.

pete
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