Speaking As Someone Who Has Delved Into The Intricacies Of PL/I, I Am Sure That Only Real Men Could Have Written Such A Machine-hogging, Cycle-grabbing, All-encompassing Monster.

Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging, cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster.
Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure!...
REAL men use EDLIN...
Real men don't use debuggers....
Real men don't use menus...
Real men don't use thesauruses.
REAL men don't use WINDOWS...
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&...