Re: comparison: was He's not the only one at it again!

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From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 16:15

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In article <3503@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> 
 ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

   Was Algol 68 the last
   standardised language to try to maintain the distinction between how a
   programming language was to be printed for human consumption and how it
   may be prepared for a computer in a machine-dependent way?  

Knuth's WEB does this to some extent.  Hmmm.  Does that make your
point or refute it? :-)

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