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From: "Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:16:57 -0500
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> Isn't TeX written in pascal?.

yeah, except that Knuth used an extension --- an "others" clause in case
statements --- that made it hard to port to Unix (I did the initial port by
hacking the pascal compiler; now the pascal is converted to C).