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Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming

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From: John MAX Skaller
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:59
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In article <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
>In article <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes (among other things in an excellant article):

>write application software.  Has anyone written a general purpose language
>to do what I would think is the most common use of computer programming -
>to write application programs?  And if this/these exist, what are they and
>how do you rate them?  [just curious]
>
	ALGOL.
	PL/1.

Both turned out to be too hard to implement.

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