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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher,,255RTFM,255rtfm)
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Subject: Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer
Message-ID: <1990Nov05.221819.21629@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 22:18:19 GMT
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Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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>>And you thought you couldn't write compiliers in Fortran?

A Perkins Elmer I used (as little as possible) had a 8080
assembler written in Fortran. A file of 64K lines of db
statements took 40 minutes to assemble......


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