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From: gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: Modern languages (Slight return)
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Date: 27 May 88 00:22:57 GMT
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In article <11671@ut-sally.UUCP> nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>You might want to read Sir Anthony Hoare's critique of Ada (I don't have the
>reference at hand, but I still vividly remember its content).


You might also want to remember that his reviews of Algol 68 were
notorious for misreprenting the truth.  For example, he would give an
example of something that was terribly wrong with Algol 68; the
only trouble was that his terrible example would be a syntactic
error caught by the compiler.

David Gast
gast@cs.ucla.edu
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