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Subject: Re: High-levelity
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Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 14:30:00 EST
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Re high-level = able to express things in fewer symbols: how much of C's
advantage over Pascal, etc., would disappear if one behaved as the Algol 6x
reports request, and consider BEGIN, END, etc. to be one symbol? i.e. are
we counting characters or tokens?

						James Jones