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From: Don Guinn <donguinn@hal-pc.org>
Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results
Date: 1997/10/22
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Date: 1997-10-22T00:00:00+00:00
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Why is it OK to spend a whole morning understanding a couple pages of
FORTRAN code, yet it is unreasonable to spend the same amount of time
with a 2-liner in APL or J which does the same thing?

Don Guinn
donguinn@hal-pc.org