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Ok folks, time to add some Worcestorshire sauce to the fire.

Check out the latest issue of Communications of the ACM. It has a desciption
of a language (called Turing) which escapes many of the S&M aspects of some
languages, while retaining the elegance and simplicity required for minimalists.

I haven't used this language, but the preview in that article certainly made me
want to look for it. (If anyone has details please mail them, I'll post a
follow up, inparticular I'd like either a Macintosh (MPW) or IBM PC (yech)
version).

One of the nicest features of the language is that it is simple enough for
beginning students to pick up and learn easily, and with a defined set of
extensions powerful enough to rival C in getting "close" to the machine.

I also, particularly, appreciate the removal of silly requirements like 
semicolons at the end of statements.

enough for know,
rob sez check it out...

References: CACM Vol 31 #12 December 1988, "The Turing Programming Language"
R.C. Holt and J.R.Cordy Pp 1410-

PS. anyone else notice how much better CACM has been getting recently?

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