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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Is Pascal utterly useless?
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:12:59 +0100
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Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
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>>  There's an excellent book (old now) that compares languages by
>> examining the extent to which they could implement their own IO
>> facilities.  It's a very revealing point of view.  Sadly I can't
>> remember anything else about it.
>
> If you should come to remember its title & author let me know, I'd
> like to read it.

Sorry, can't find it.  I suspect I may have conflated two things, a
paper or technical report by Ron Morrison and a book by D M Harland
"Polymorphic programming Languages – Design And Implementation".  That
book (if I recall correctly) advocates for designs where nothing is
privileged, but the "how well can a language implement its own IO" is
something else.

-- 
Ben.