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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2001 16:48:24 PDT
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com" > scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: What, if anything, happened?

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"Lynn is referring to the original PL/I language specification,
developed in 1964. Lynn, didn't they swipe that from Algol?"

The whole secret to quality plagarism is knowing what to steal.
They were originally intended to be Fortran VI, so they obviously
stole from there. Then the Guide people emphasizing business
applications wanted into the act. So they stole some more. Then
there were those command and control nuts who wanted something
added like either LISP or JOVIAL. They stole from them. What
they basically stole from ALGOL was its storage management and the
default use of "automatic" storage to which they added "static",
"controlled" (a LIFO queue for a variable name), and then finally
"based" storage, the equal to which does not exist in other
languages.

Sometimes when you steal you can improve on the original.

Peter, running EMX compiles will either work or not. You can
leave that up to Dallas and Steven, either of which once mastered
can demonstrate the method to you. I, on the other hand, cannot
demonstrate what I do not know (despite 36 years in IBM marketing)
and have a great need for you to get the investment analysis
project off to a jump start. Reconsider.

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