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From: runyan@hpirs.HP.COM (Mark Runyan)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Making "archaic" languages like C, COBOL illegal
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Date: 1 Aug 89 20:06:43 GMT
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>/ mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk) /  1:46 pm  Jul 31, 1989 /
>The Honorable A. F. Day
>...

One has to wonder if the "A. F." stands for April Fool's.

>...
>I would laugh, except there's always the possibility that this bill could
>be passed.  Does anyone out there know what the status of this is?  If it
>was discussed in April, I would hope that it's a dead issue by now.
>Otherwise we might be facing another PI=22/7 by legislative fiat joke :-)

And this was in the April issue?

Mark Runyan