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- From: ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
- Subject: Re: lvars and standards
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.151958.7226@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:19:58 GMT
- References: <116670035@otter.hpl.hp.com> <116670041@otter.hpl.hp.com> <C07Bop.DwH@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan7.154850.16982@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <KERS.93Jan8082322@cdollin.hpl.hp.com>
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- kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
- > In article ... ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers) writes:
- >
- > There will be no MSDOS or Mac version of Pop11 without an
- > identifiable, sufficient subset of Pop11 commands and syntax. This
- > is why Pepper and GLOW have occurred!
- >
- > I can't speak for GLOW, but that *isn't* why I designed and (proto) implemented
- > Pepper.
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- But, as far as I know, you're a Pop fan Chris. So if there'd been a subset
- would you have used that instead of inventing Pepper?
-
- Ian.
-