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From: kees@praxis.co.uk (Kees Goossens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Info wanted on Xerox Alto OS
Message-ID: <822@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 19:13:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 21 19:13:11 1987
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In article <415@unisoft.UUCP> jef@unisoft.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
>In the referenced article, aad+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony A. Datri) wrote:
>>Xerox's pride was Mesa, however.
>
>Wrong tense.  Mesa is still in use, and is unquestionably the best
>Algol-style language yet created.  All the power and safety of Ada
>and Modula-2, with none of their verbosity and syntactic stupidities.
>---
>Jef
>
> Jef Poskanzer  unisoft!jef@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu  ...ucbvax!unisoft!jef
>"42. Sometimes I find it hard to conceal the fact that I am not angry."


Could you give me some pointers to (introductionary) books/articles
about Mesa please?

An Algol68 lover...

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