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Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:17PM (#15201493)
One nit: "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" explicitly states that it is not a comparison of Pascal and C. "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL" was not a "bash" article; it was satire. It didn't advocate use of C, even in satire - it advocated Fortran and assembler.

I think blaming either of those articles is mistaken.

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Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) by pjmlp on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:04PM (#15201955)
BBS and Usenet discussions back in the day had another point of view, even if that wasn't part of the respective author's intentions.
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