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- From: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller)
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.195917.10190@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- References: <1992Dec24.154204.25248@blkbox> <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:59:17 GMT
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- In article <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes (among other things in an excellant article):
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- >write application software. Has anyone written a general purpose language
- >to do what I would think is the most common use of computer programming -
- >to write application programs? And if this/these exist, what are they and
- >how do you rate them? [just curious]
- >
- ALGOL.
- PL/1.
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- Both turned out to be too hard to implement.
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