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Date:Mon Jan 24 02:31:20 1998 
Subject:Re: Complexity 
From:Dennis Yelle 
Volume-ID:980124.01 

In article <34c67661.0@rcfnews.cs.umass.edu> pop@cs.umass.edu ( Robin Popplestone ) writes:
[...]
>[This  fact
>incidentally must have been known to the Algol 60 designers, since they put
>call-by-name into the language...]

My understanding is that Algol 60 got call-by-name by accident.
The attempt to specify call-by-value was done so badly that it
actually specified call-by-name.

Dennis Yelle

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