Re: How to supplant FORTRAN (Was: Algol-68 down for the count)

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From: John Sambrook
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1988 06:55

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In article <3741@hubcap.UUCP> steve@ragman writes:

>Scientists I've worked with certainly quote
>Hamming: ``the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.''  

I could be wrong but I think this quote should be attributed to Alan
Perlis, and not Hamming.  

I would check ACM SIGPLAN Notices, volume 17, number 9, September 1982.
There is an article by Alan Perlis "Epigrams on Programming."  I don't
have the article handy, so I can't be certain that the quote is by 
Perlis.

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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
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Subject: Re: How to supplant FORTRAN (Was: Algol-68 down for the count)
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