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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: A bit of C humor in Dr. Who
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Date: 15 Nov 90 00:12:56 GMT
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In article <9011142141.AA06000@csvax.cs.caltech.edu> mak@ndc.UUCP (Mike Klaus) writes:
>Get real.  in 1977, I was learning FORTRAN at Citrus College in Azusa 
>at the Citrus College Computer Center.  The Ford/Honeywell computer system
>had a three-pass FORTRAN compiler.  The object code was labelled ( by the
>computer ) as intermediate file 'A'.  The first-pass output was file 'B',
>the second-pass output was file 'C', and third-pass output was file 'D'.
[...]
>Although we students had discovered the 'C' programming language in 1977,


Excuse me, could I interest you in a jelly-baby?


				--Blair
				  "Or perhaps a lollipop? ---O"