Aeiss.141 net.jokes.q utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!npois!eiss!jtb Fri Jan 15 11:00:53 1982 Computer Do Its Lisp programmers do it in cars. Computer scientists do it all night long. Programmers do it depth-first. Systems Programmers do it with pointers. Mathmeticians do it with pencils. Programmers do it routinely. Hackers go to it. Structured programmers do it repeatedly or else. Declarative programmers do it productively. Fortran programmers do. Lisp programmers do it between the parentheses. Algol programmers block it out. Apl programmers do it in a line. Snobol programmers do it in strings. Pascal programmers do it in variant ways. C programmers do it their way. Clu programmers do it in clusters. Lisp programmers have to be bound to do it. System programmers do it in overlays. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.