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From: Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was:
 No top schools use Ada)) ?
Date: 1995/04/19
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Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> wrote:
>tomkwong@netcom.com (Thomas Kwong) wrote:
>>University of California, Santa Barbara:
>>
>>  In the programming languages class, it used Ada, Eiffel, and Miranda.
>
>
>Miranda????
>Languages are kind of a hobby with me, but I have NEVER heard of that
>one. 
>
>(slight net pause)
>
>Yahoo has never heard of it, either.
>

(longer net pause)

..but the omnipotent computing dictionary at http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/
has heard of it.

T.E.D. (structured programming bigot)

references -
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/?miranda

p.s. - Don't you just hate losers who reply to their own posts?