8 Jun
2017
8 Jun
'17
3:57 p.m.
My other favorite Wirth joke (I believe he coined himself) plays fun with the
pronunciation of his name:
You can call me by name… VEERTH or by value… WORTH.
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Dan Cross
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:46 AM
To: Michael Kjörling
Cc: TUHS main list
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Array index history
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se> wrote:
On 8 Jun 2017 08:49 -0400, from ches(a)cheswick.com (William Cheswick):
When he tests a microphone, Don Knuth says:
“Testing zero, one, two.”
As opposed to Niklaus Wirth, who presumably would rather say:
"Testing lower bound, lower bound plus one, lower bound plus two."
"Testing: the set N, defined so that there are some elements 'b' and
'e' in N with known values taken from the integers and such that b less than or
equal 'e' and every other element is both the natural successor of an element in
N and less than or equal to 'e'."