Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!guido
From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language illiteracy
Message-ID: <300@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 6 May 88 10:37:55 GMT
References: <786@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP> <8088@ames.arpa> <4654@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Amoebae
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In article <4654@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>In article <8088@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>>A better example is to ask some one to
>>write text editors or text edit using Fortran (and a lesser extent C).

Oh well, I once wrote a half-decent screen editor in COBOL!
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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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