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Subject: Re: [9fans] Musings on Interfaces
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Steve was borrowing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL :

	C. A. R. Hoare remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its
	time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but
	also on nearly all its successors."

(This one is also mostly true. :-)

Arnold

Brantley Coile <brantleycoile@me.com> wrote:

> Steve Bourne said it about 7th Edition.  I just asked him. He also said=
 it turned out to be mostly true.
> =20
> > On Sep 1, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Adriano Verardo <adr.verardo@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> >=20
> > Brantley Coile wrote:
> >>=20
> >> I=E2=80=99m very grateful to still be using these tools. It=E2=80=99=
s a very personal thing but for someone who first used 6th Edition Unix, =
ed and the old shell, and used all the versions of Unix that followed, th=
ese tools, both acme and sam, rio and 8 1/2, are an improvement to all th=
at proceeded them and followed them.
> > Cool.
> > Who said "Unix v7 (or 6 ?) is the major improvement of all subsequent=
 releases" ?
> > (or something similar, sorry for my poor spoken english)
> >>   Brantley Coile
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >=20
> >=20
>
>