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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X
Keywords: programming languages, abstractions
Message-ID: <2654@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 10 Jan 90 08:33:12 GMT
References: <1470@mdbs.UUCP> <1782@aipna.ed.ac.uk> <585@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl> <6917@pdn.paradyne.com>
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In article <6917@pdn.paradyne.com> alan@oz.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) writes:
-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.

CLU ?

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland