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From: GB03@Lehigh
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: RE:RE: WHAT ARE ICONS
Message-ID: <13119021:11:45GB03@lehigh.bitnet>
Date: 14 Nov 90 02:11:45 GMT
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It might interest most people to know that BASIC was originally BASIC.
Kemeny and Kurtz got tired of telling people it was only BASIC.  No one
believed the inventors.  They finally came up with Beginners All
Purpose Simplified Code

Ain't history wunderful!?