In article <jax.749324550@darkstar.cygnus.com> jax@Cygnus.COM (Jack Woehr) writes:
>pop@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Robin Popplestone) writes:
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>>The zeitgeist works in mysterious ways...
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> Ain't it the truth, Robin!? For instance, it's pretty obvious that
>Forth and C were invented primarily to solve one and the same problem,
>which was to transform the archaic, lugubrious human-oriented syntax of
>the then-extant languages into a more machine-oriented, low-level compromise
>syntax.
JAX, you know that Forth was developed to control telescopes, and
C was designed to support an operating system. Those
sound like widely disparate problems to me!
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