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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Are all RISCs the same?
Message-ID: <1499@eos.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 17:46:33 GMT
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In ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 17, no. 9, Sept. 1982, Alan Perlis
wrote in the article Epigrams on Programming:

> You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the
> continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

I say:
You can measure a person's perspective by noting whether he thinks
a VAX is a "mainframe."

You are welcome to make other bumper sticker computer science (as
Bentley calls it).

Another gross generalization from

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