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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
        Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:50:07 +0900

Re: Algol just plain bad (Re: Why use DocBook versus Word)

At 02:56 PM 4/26/01 +0930, Alan Kennington wrote:

>The disadvantage [of TeX] is that it is probably the least user-friendly
>langauge I've ever seen, including sendmail.cf language and assembly
>language. (Octal core dumps and algol are probably the only languages
>worse than TeX.)

Oh come now! Algol gave rise to Simula 67, which had class!

Before almost any other language, too!

:-)

Did anyone notice on the Matrix where Neo picked a book off his shelf to
take out some sort of recorded info to give to some guy at the door, the
book was something like 'Programming in Simula' ...

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba


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