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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Programming
Message-ID: <8090005@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 88 23:54:34 GMT
References: <339@mozart.UUCP>
Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA
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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. It
>is also an improvement to BASIC but familiar to you if you use BASIC.
 
>Why SWITCH to SPL? Here are the reasons!

    Dennis:

    Forget it!   My mind is completely closed on this subject.  I don't
care WHAT SPL has.  I couldn't care less.  Read the following, and
memorize it.  If you have any questions, you ought to wake up and take
a look at the real world, which now could benefit more from standardization
than any possible new feature:


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