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Silver Book N. Jensen And Wirth's Infamous "Pascal User Manual And Repo
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Silver Book n.
Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal
User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of
the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN
0-387-90144-2). See book titles, Pascal.
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Silver Book: n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Repo
o called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2)....
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