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From: jpd@etive.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Programming
Keywords: Programming
Message-ID: <850@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Oct 88 13:47:27 GMT
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Reply-To: jpd@etive.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish)
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In article <339@mozart.UUCP> dlbaer@mozart.UUCP (Dennis L. Baer ) writes:
>
>PROGRAMMERS,try the Structured Programming Language and you will have an
>opportunity to switch to a language that is better than PASCAL and C.

>SPL programs are easier to make portable to even non MSDOS machines.

Wow, portable to non-MSDOS machines! Really? Yeah, I've always hated the way
Pascal and C were entirely MSDOS-oriented. What could Niklaus Wirth and Dennis
Ritchie have been thinking of? Sitting there, hacking away in their PCs...

I'm sure glad there's SPL around to straighten everything out. Yaay!

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