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Gordon Sande  
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 More options May 11 2009, 8:33 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.pl1
From: Gordon Sande <g.sa...@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:33:42 GMT
Local: Mon, May 11 2009 8:33 am
Subject: Re: Declaration order
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On 2009-05-11 00:00:35 -0300, "robin" <robi...@bigpond.com> said:

> "Gordon Sande" <g.sa...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:2009051017334316807-gsande@worldnetattnet...

>> They forgot conditional expressions from Algol 60.

> Thank goodness.  Along with Jensen's device, etc.

>> I was at seminar
>> where McIlroy was asked and the reply was "We forgot to put them in"
>> or something to that effect.

> He was probably joking.

In which case he deserves many awards for acting, as well as
improvisation for his ability to followup with a long explanation
on the flawed specification development process they were forced
to follow.
>> There was a long apology about how if
>> they had known that they really had 2 years rather than the original
>> requested (by IBM) 6 months the product would have been much different.


 
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