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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Aug28195448@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:54:47 GMT
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- In-reply-to: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu's message of 28 Aug 92 15:47:10 GMT
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- In article <BtpAIn.EE5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- Handling the syntax problem alone would make for great improvement,
- but I see nothing in this direction, and have asked for software to do
- this single job.
-
- And many have asked you for a decent specification of what you want.
- If you can't tell us what you want, there is not much chance of us
- coding it is there? So come on Herman, play the game, tell us
- what you want so we can finally be rid of this old chestnut.
-
- bevan
-
- PS did you look at any of the languages I suggested the last time you
- brought this up?
-