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From: alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X
Keywords: programming languages, abstractions
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Date: 9 Jan 90 03:19:20 GMT
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What the world needs is a programming language whose "fundamental concept"
("raison d'etre") is abstraction. Period.

"Give me a place to stand on, and with this lever..."

Enough said.

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