From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad36,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad36,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 10cc59,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc59,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mobergru@oslonett.no (Rune Moberg) Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language Date: 1997/08/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 265540336 References: <5sfeus$a1i@nntp.seflin.org> <5spvub$qns@nntp.seflin.org> <5t1lso$sad@nntp.seflin.org> <5t4djn$uv6$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <5t91cd$3aj$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au> Organization: CD-Player Pro author! Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.unix.programmer Date: 1997-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5t91cd$3aj$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au>, nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) wrote: >In dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > >>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! > >It's too dull to be a joke. The reason (I suspect) why some people didn't conceive it as a joke, is probably because there are many people using a similar language today, 20 years after its conception: "C" I further guess that people over here at comp.lang.pascal.misc laughed hard when we read the original post, simply because we knew better. ;-) -- =\ *=- R.Moberg, CD-Player Pro info @ http://home.sn.no/home/mobergru =/ my own webserver @ http://pumba.qsd.no