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From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: He's not the only one at it again!
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Date: 26 Jul 90 02:02:29 GMT
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In article <2404@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
#I claim I have made a strong case against ALGOL being even a good programming
#language for mathematics. 

Because certain computers had hardware instructions that ALGOL could
not use, then ALGOL is not a good programming language for
mathematics. I don't understand the logic, because for ANY language,
there will be machines that have instructions that cannot be used.

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