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From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>
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Subject: Re: Programming language inventor or serial killer?
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> Why anyone would want to associate programming language
> inventors with serial killers, I don't know...

I can imagine a reasonable person becoming a serial killer
of inventors of programming languages: BASIC, COBOL, etc...

What about inventors of "operating systems": Windows 95,
HASP, Windows NT, TSO, Windows 98, Windows 2000, etc... ?

Dan Strick
strick@covad.net