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From: gs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Gordon Strong)
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Subject: Re: CLU sample/query. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 00:44:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 00:44:20 1983
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At MIT, we use CLU extensively.  This is due mainly to the fact
that it was developed here, by Barbara Liskov, Bob Scheifler, et al.
In fact, the major software engineering laboratory and the compiler
course required for CS majors at MIT (6.170 and 6.035 for those of
us at the 'tute) use CLU as the sole programming language.  I think 
the language wins tremendously.  It supports abstractions and user 
defined data types very nicely and has the *best* built-in exception
handling support I've ever seen.  I could continue for hours, but I'll
hold off.  If anyone is interested in CLU, I suggest they buy the
CLU reference manual (one book in a series of Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, published by Spinger-Verlag).  If anyone else on the net is
interested in CLU, let me know; I'm interested in hearing what other
people have done with the language (outside of MIT).


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Gordon Strong
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