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Subject: Re: Re: Assembly VS HOL: Having it both
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 19:06:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 19:06:35 1985
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      The idea of machine-dependent medium-level languages was worked to death
in the late 60s and early 70s.  Look up ``PL/360'' in a good computer science
library.  In retrospect medium-level languages were a bad idea; nothing more
machine-dependent than Bliss ever went anywhere.

					John Nagle