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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language
Date: 1997/08/17
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Date: 1997-08-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Nick said

<<I think followups have demonstrated that basically nobody (but the
author) thinks this is a good idea. Why don't you go ahead and
produce a BNF syntax for your new language, write it into a paper
and then publish the URL here? No need to bore us with the design
process.>>


This is a rather extraordinary thread. A surprising number of people seem
to have taken it as serious. I just assumed that it was a joke, since I
cannot imagine anyone seriously thinking that these proposals were real!