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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!biosci!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!syma!ianr
  2. From: ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
  4. Subject: Re: lvars and standards
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan8.151958.7226@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 8 Jan 93 15:19:58 GMT
  7. 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>
  8. Organization: University of Sussex at Brighton
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  11. kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
  12. > In article ... ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers) writes:
  13. >
  14. >    There will be no MSDOS or Mac version of Pop11 without an
  15. >    identifiable, sufficient subset of Pop11 commands and syntax. This
  16. >    is why Pepper and GLOW have occurred!
  17. >
  18. > I can't speak for GLOW, but that *isn't* why I designed and (proto) implemented
  19. > Pepper.
  20.  
  21. But, as far as I know, you're a Pop fan Chris. So if there'd been a subset
  22. would you have used that instead of inventing Pepper?
  23.  
  24. Ian.
  25.