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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!alderson
- From: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: IBM Series/1 Minicomputer
- In-Reply-To: dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171539.28460@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Keywords: IBM Series/1 computer
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Stanford University Academic Information Resources
- References: <1992Nov14.073229.22365@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BxqFvv.4xv@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:15:39 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <BxqFvv.4xv@world.std.com>, dpbsmith@world (Daniel P. B. Smith) writes:
- >But I WOULD like to point out that one of IBM's biggest successes is
- >getting everyone to forget their failures! Remember ... LOOK OUT, Digital,
- >LOOK OUT, DG, here comes Big Blue with their OWN minicomputer!
- >
- >Rack that one up right along with
- >
- > -- the four-inch microfloppy
- > -- the PL/I language
- > -- SAA
-
- Hey! Leave PL/I (or PL/1, as I first learned it) alone!
-
- It may have violated Dijkstra's dicta all over the place, but there are still
- times when I miss its power in Pascal. (I don't *write* in C.)
-
- But then, I like kitchen-sink tools--PL/I, EMACS, LISP, BSD...
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-