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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Re: what's computer science
Message-ID: <231@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 00:04:53 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 00:04:53 1985
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Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
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In article <260@yetti.UUCP> peter@yetti.UUCP (Runge) writes:
>> And another trouble is that theory has not contributed much to computer
>> science; it almost always comes after practice.  Had Algol and Pascal
>> been failures, theory would have quietly buried the corpses.
>> -- 
>> Col. G. L. Sicherman
>
>And then there are those "failures" Algol, and Pascal! What exactly did they
>fail at? As far as I know, both languages succeeded in large part in meeting
>the goals of their designers and beyond.

hmmm.  i thought the Colonel said the opposite.

Herb Chong...

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