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- From: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:47:39 GMT
- Subject: Re: A little Pop history
- Message-ID: <116670015@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
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- Luc says (hi Luc!):
- > While we're on the subject of the history of Pop languages, I'd like
- > to say that, in my humble opinion, it was a mistake to call Poplog's
- > Pop, Pop-11; for if a different company produces a programming
- > system with a language called Pop-12, there is a great danger that
- > potential clients will tend to assume that it's better because it is
- > apparently newer.
-
- Nah ... surely they'll just think it will only run on the PDP-12 ?
-
- :-)
-
- Steve
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