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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
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Subject: one way to keep a contract...
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 19:15:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 19:15:54 1985
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        There was one response (to a language survey) I found rather amusing.
        There is a large group
        at Rockwell.  Which site, and which project they are working on is not
        important.  The project contract says that the software source that
        gets turned in to the buyer must be written in either FORTRAN or the
        assembly language for the given machine.  The engineers in this group
        prefer to do things in a more comfortable fashion.  They write 
        everything in Pascal, which makes thing much easier for them.  They
        compile their Pascal programs, and test them, run them, get satisfied
        with them.  They then run the Pascal code files through the dis-
        assembler, and send the buyer a nice long assembly listing like the
        contract asked for.  Everybody winds up happy. :-) )

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