: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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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