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From: djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Classifying programming-language designers.
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Date: 24 Jan 88 01:18:02 GMT
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For a humorous but insightful classification of programming language
designers take a look at the book, "Lucid, the Dataflow Programming
Language," by William W. Wadge and Edward A. Ashcroft, Academic Press,
1975.  His classifications are:
	 1) Cowboys
	 2) Wizards
	 3) Preachers
	 4) Boffins
	 5) Handymen
	 6) Repairmen
These classifications are explained in sections I.5 and I.6 of the
book.  It is very entertaining to fit your friends and famous computer
scientists into these groups as you read.
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