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From: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.wanted
Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors
Message-ID: <127@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:25:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 11:25:29 1985
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Summary: 

In article <651@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes:
>
>It's this reasoning that keeps us measuring frequency in Hertz and
>conductivity in Siemenns.   Next thing, we'll have to start calling
>the C compiler "Ritchie."

Well, we already have "Ada" "Pascal", and "JOVIAL".  But why not:

Ritchie		C
Grace		COBOL (sounds nice to be programming in Grace!)
Mc(arthy	LISP
Wirth		Modula II
Moore		Forth
Watson		PL-I (named for the monolith's founder)
...

(I appologise if I omitted your favorite co-author or language.
Off hand I cannot remember the names of the authors of SNOBOL or
BASIC, although I have seen their names in print recently recently.)

Tom Almy
Tektronix, Inc.

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