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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: How to supplant FORTRAN (Was: Algol-68 down for the count)
Message-ID: <1437@uw-nsr.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 00:34:17 GMT
References: <416@ubbpc.UUCP> <3741@hubcap.UUCP> <1436@uw-nsr.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386)
Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA
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In article <1436@uw-nsr.UUCP> john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386) writes:
>In article <3741@hubcap.UUCP> steve@ragman writes:
>
>>Scientists I've worked with certainly quote
>>Hamming: ``the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.''  
>
>I could be wrong but I think this quote should be attributed to Alan
>Perlis, and not Hamming.  

I really blew it.  The quote is from Hamming, not Perlis.  Please accept
my apologies.

Maybe someday I'll learn not to post on a hunch.

Sorry for wasting the bandwidth.  I'll shut up now :-)

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