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From: rob@b15.INGR.COM (Rob Lemley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: WHAT ARE ICONS
Message-ID: <1805@b15.INGR.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 17:25:25 GMT
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In <13119021:11:45GB03@lehigh.bitnet> GB03@Lehigh writes:

: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

The American Heritage Dictionary (2nd College Edition, 1985) says:

	Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code