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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.
Date: 2000/03/29
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In article <8bt1vk$r0e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Jean-Marc Bourguet <bourguet@my-deja.com> wrote:
> dewar> (I am one of the peculiar people who learned
> dewar> most languages from their reference manuals, including
COBOL
> dewar> and Algol-68)
>
> I do not know COBOL, but learning Algol-68 from the RM does
impress
> me a lot. I can find my way in it, more or less easily, but I
knew
> a good part of the language before opening the RM.


If you can find your way in the Algol-68 report, you are part
of a VERY small group of people in the world :-)


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