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- From: dave@alex.uchicago.edu (Dave Griffith)
- Subject: El(Alpha)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.193904.4296@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <BEVAN.92Nov11191720@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:39:04 GMT
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- In article <BEVAN.92Nov16163936@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >In article <Bxq1C2.1CC@fiu.edu> feathers@serss0 (Michael Feathers) writes:
- > [ nearly all the article because I essentially agree with it ]
- >
- > Ada, Eiffel, El(Alpha), and Turing are all great for their
- > application domains but I think that they are subsets of C and
- > C++'s application domains.
- >
-
- Alright, you've piqued my interest. I've stolen vast swaths of Ada, Eiffel,
- and Turing for the language design I'm working on, but have never heard of
- El(Alpha). Any information about the language, particularly availablility of
- a reference manual, would be greatly appreciated.
-
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