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Subject: Re: Obfuscated C
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Date: Sun, 18-May-86 20:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 18 20:17:00 1986
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>
>  HOWEVER, as useful it would be to include other operators, Remember What
>Happened to PL/1.  Because everyone in the design committee wanted something
>and no-one wanted to say no! we stop adding commands/functions/operators
>here, I have never seen a full implementation of PL/1 on any machine--the
>original language specifications are too bloody big to have a compiler fit
on a single vax.


>         - William Woody
>      NET  Woody%Romeo@Hamlet.Caltech.Edu
>   USNAIL  1-54 Lloyd, Caltech / Pasadena, CA 91126

That's what comes of trying to put a big language on a small machine.

Carrington Dixon