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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2,
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On 16.07.14 19:47, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:40:50 AM UTC-7, jo...@peppermind.com wrote:
>
>> 10. Jean David Ichbiah apparently did not have a long beard - it has been observed that only programming languages whose inventor has a long beard become truly popular, although nobody knows why.
>
> Length is not a factor.  Judging from a quick Google search, James Gosling's and Bjarne Stroustrup's beards are well-trimmed, not long.  But Jean Ichbiah didn't have a beard at all.

Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal -> C#) and Martin Odersky
(Modula-17 -> Scala) have meanwhile spoiled the correlation.

Grace_Hopper, Jean E Sammet, and Barbara Liskov also
also challenge the legend of beards, I think.