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From: rst@cs.hull.ac.uk (Rob Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Second System Effect
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Date: 28 Feb 91 11:51:37 GMT
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Jerry Gitomer writes:

>... I can't think
>of any example in which a revised standard has resulted in a
>significant reduction in language size or complexity.

Nor can I, but something similar is Wirth's simplification of Modula2
(albeit with a few additions) into Oberon.

Rob