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Marin David Condic wrote:
> which to run the compilers and nobody was willing to "subset" the 
> language to get some portion of it working reliably & efficiently in a 

Janus was willing.  I had a copy runnable on a CP/M
64 K machine.  Never did anything with it.

> The value of strong typing in particular was not seen as "user 
> friendly". They tried to write "Adatran" code and found it difficult. So 

And people on the other extreme, who thought that just
because the language offered something, you had to use it.

I remember one program that had 26 tasks when given
to me.  When I was done with it, it had five, and
still met all its requirements.

-- 
Wes Groleau
    "Lewis's case for the existence of God is fallacious."
"You mean like circular reasoning?"
    "He believes in God.  Therefore, he's fallacious."