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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
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Subject: Re: ap
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Date: 11 Jun 91 21:45:41 GMT
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tml@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Tim Long) writes:

>1) To have a freely available general purpose interpretive language on
>UNIX systems.  (As opposed to the many more special purpose ones such
>as awk and the shell).  This can be re-phrased as: To have a UNIX
>language like DOS has BASIC.

First thing I do after installing DOS on a PC is find BASIC and erase it.
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