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From: reid@CTC.CONTEL.COM (Tom Reid x4505)
Date: 24 Apr 90 19:20:14 GMT
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> The Professor is a wise man.  Could it be that, knowing he could not
specify
> the ONE TRULY CORRECT AND SIMPLE way of doing this, he chose to write
> libraries sufficient to his immediate needs but _intentionally_ not
attempting
> sufficiency to a general solution (presuming there actually is one)?
>

Don't forget that Modula/Modula-2 were machine implementation languages
and the language was (probably) secondary to the implementation of Lilith.
While we are musing, could it not also be that his graduate students were
the implementors (both design and code) following his general guidelines?

Disclaimer: All the above is speculation.

Tom.

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