This is the infamous section of the book Lucid the Dataflow Programming Language where I make fun of everyone working on imperative languages. It was very popular but many people hated it even though no individual is named. In a companion post I cite it as an example of a Career Limiting Move
. It didn’t quite kill my career though it didn’t help. I’m sure there were a number of meetings I wasn’t invited to and program committees I was left out of because of it. Hmmm … was that really a bad thing?]
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Btw the late Ed Ashcroft was a co-author of the book but had no part in writing this section. Wise man.]