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From: jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SWISS DATA/MAIL ON IBM/C VS. PASCAL/UNITERM TEK MODE
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Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 22:41:08 EDT
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I would love to see the reaction of some of you language experts to OSS's
ACTION! for the Atari 8-bitters.  It is structured, but reputedly so close to
as fast as Assembly language as makes the difference not terribly significant.
And it compiles faster than anything else known to Man (or Woman, for those
who choose not to topologically identify the two lexical items for this
purpose).

If we are REALLY lucky, maybe OSS will come out with an ACTION! compiler for
the ST.  Then maybe the DoD will select it to replace ADA!!!

(P.S. - in English the idiom is "comparing Apples and Oranges", but personally
the pears sound tastier anyway.)

-John Sangster
jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa