It was supposed to be humorous.  Like "Professionals built the Titanic,=20
an amateur built the ark"
Few people remember the Lisa, which was the origin of the knock knock=20
joke.  It was the precursor of the Macintosh, it was VERY slow and VERY=20
expensive.  Was it slow because the OS was written in Pascal?  Probably not=
..

Kerry


Walter Banks wrote:
>> Unix was written in C.  Lisa was written in Pascal.
>> =20
>> Knock Knock
>> Who's there?
>> (long pause)
>> Lisa!
>>
>> If you like Pascal, go ahead and use it. =20
>>    =20
>
> I have written optimizers for both C and Pascal. It is much easier=20
> to create optimized pascal object code.=20
>
> w..
>  =20



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