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On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 11:36:57 PM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Ah, yes, one of my old college textbooks. The professor of the class had 
> never used it before, and we ended up spending lots of class-time trying to 
> figure out how the algorithms should work. They were riddled with errors. 
> Apparently, running the sample programs was a novel concept. (Dunno if those 
> problems were fixed in a later edition, hopefully. I've heard from others 
> that they thought the book was useful, so YMMV)
> 
>                            Randy.

Randy, you are confusing Stone Age with post-modernity again ;>
>From you writing I gather that that must have been shortly after the ALGOL age as described in the HeerdeBeer thesis above.
I was trying my hand at basic at the time, so perhaps we all came a long way since then.

cheers and keep smiling

j.