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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Dr Iain Maoileoin <iain@csp-partnership.co.uk>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Algol 68 and Unix (was cron and at ...)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:06:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_S97MbUyH786Ayj=BVzp8BO29jqRi675LTKuSqL3OabOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAD0555D-2530-40B7-A4B7-5FA31C0ECA56@csp-partnership.co.uk>

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:02 PM Dr Iain Maoileoin <
iain@csp-partnership.co.uk> wrote:


> The fortune cooked has been a bad journalist and taken the sentence out of
> context.  The previous 423 pages were essential reading.


Well, I'll go with Lindsey's [?] remark about how you can't understand any
part of the Report until you understand all of it.  However, without the
typography it's a lot harder to follow.

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-18  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-17 14:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-17 14:24 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-12-17 14:35   ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-17 14:44 ` Mike Markowski
2020-12-17 21:18   ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2020-12-18  5:06     ` John Cowan [this message]

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