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From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <bourguet@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.
Date: 2000/03/30
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In article <8bu375$2mh$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <8bt1vk$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 :-)

And now I'll wonder if I've understood anything in the report :-)

-- Jean-Marc, who have better things to do than go and read the report
anew


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