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From: gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The CS "religion" (was Re: It looks like he's at it again!)
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Date: 24 Jul 90 07:31:03 GMT
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In <YFP4SI@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In <RANG.90Jul13220207@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>> Portability is something which is not especially important most of the time;

>To sum it up, I can't think of a single language in which it is the slightest
>bit difficult to write non-portable code.

Your're not thinking of Algol 68.  (There are no smileys because I am
serious).

David Gast
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