eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/04/89)
Rather than speculate on why Iverson did this, why not somebody ask Iverson?
I can send fan mail to Minsky, Knuth, Denning, and even Backus on why
Fortran is the way it is. You can't do this in lots of disciplines
(and I don't mean to imply email). This was something at Don Norman
as psychologist noted about news: people willing to speculate, few
to verify.
Another gross generalization from
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
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