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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Productivity of FORTH programmers
Message-ID: <17616@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 88 17:10:48 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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     I tend to be very skeptical of articles of the form "Why X is great" by
the author of X.  

     See "Experience with the programming language Modula" in Software
Practice and Experience circa 1978, by (guess who) N. Wirth.  This was
Modula I he was talking about, which he now refers to as "an experiment".

     You tend not to see articles along the lines of "How we wasted three
years trying to make X work".

     Bear in mind that when Calvin Moore wrote that, the competition was
at the level of Tiny BASIC.

					John Nagle