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        sarin!mail eric   (Date 08/17)
The job will be deleted in several days if the problem is not corrected.
If you care to kill the job, execute the following command:

        uustat -ksarinN0edb

        Sincerely,
        wb3ffv!uucp

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 gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>When I first came to grad school, and began writing C code again, I
>was unexpectedly disappointed.  I had grown used to a Modula-II like
>language (MESA).  Some of the things that really bothered me about C
>were:

[complaints deleted]

You didn't say where you learned Mesa, but since Xerox is the only
place that uses it, I'd assume you came from there.

Your comments are interesting because when I interveiwed with Xerox
they said that Mesa was more like C than Pascal or M-2.

Rion Cassidy
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