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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Levels of Mastery [of a programming language]
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Date: 25 Mar 89 06:02:18 GMT
References: <89Mar20.170837est.4597@turing.toronto.edu>
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In-reply-to: holt@turing.toronto.edu (Ric Holt)

In article <89Mar20.170837est.4597@turing.toronto.edu>, holt@turing (Ric Holt) writes:
>Many Turing features "fold out" to provide increasing sophistication
>to increasingly sophisticated users.  For example:
>  [ simple formatted output example removed ]

This was a good idea, but a bad example.  C, FORTRAN, and CommonLisp all
have this kind of formatting capability.  What seems nice about Turing is
the ability to write a function, then add assertions, then add moduling,
then add exception handling, then add ...

Bill