Re: Jan's Name (Was: Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly) - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:16:05 GMT, John Hall wrote:
> >>>>Look at my own name. Jan Wieck (correctly pronounced like Yann Veek).
>
> Vaguely remembered, then found on the Web...
>
> Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of PASCAL, gave a talk once at which he
> was asked "How do you pronounce your name?". He replied, "You can call
> me by name, pronouncing it 'Virt', or call be by value, 'Worth'."

You mean this:
"In Europe they call me Niklaus Wirth; in the US they call me Nickel's worth.
 That's because in Europe they call me by name, and in the US by value!"

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