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• Pascal: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.
  -- Datamation, January 15, 1984...
• Pascal, n.: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.
• Pascal: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.
• bug, n: An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect.
  The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed....
• C n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet.
  2. ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement Unix...
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• A lawyer named Strange was shopping for a tombstone.
  After he had made his selection, the stonecutter asked him what inscription he would like on it....
• ADA: Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in Computing.
  Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA awareness....