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Re: BIX - BYTE - JPI - Chaos

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From: Randy Bush
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 02:09
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Professor Wirth is said to have said something like [paraphrase]

    If you choose to modify the language in any serious way, it would be nice
    for you to put your own name on it and not mine.

At least the folk at DEC had the honesty to call it Modula-2* etc.  Perhaps the
ISO committee should have the same honesty.  Perhaps we all should.

Humph.

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Randy Bush  / news@psg.com  / ..!uunet!m2xenix!news 
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From: news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush)
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Subject: Re: BIX - BYTE - JPI - Chaos
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.020952.13749@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 27 Apr 91 02:09:52 GMT
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