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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Iverson and APL (Question on programming languages)
Message-ID: <5329@eos.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 07:10:29 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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Rather than speculate on why Iverson did this, why not somebody ask Iverson?

I can send fan mail to Minsky, Knuth, Denning, and even Backus on why
Fortran is the way it is.  You can't do this in lots of disciplines
(and I don't mean to imply email).  This was something at Don Norman
as psychologist noted about news: people willing to speculate, few
to verify.

Another gross generalization from

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