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Re: The football supporters' derisory chant?

From	Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: The football supporters' derisory chant?
Date	2016-05-31 08:37 +0000
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On Tue, 31 May 2016 09:02:38 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On 31 May 2016 07:13:57 GMT Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 31 May 2016 07:06:48 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
>> <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> > On 30 May 2016 22:57:43 GMT Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2016-05-30, Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > On Mon, 30 May 2016 11:36:19 -0700, Quadibloc wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 7:53:40 AM UTC-6, gareth G4SDW GQRP
>> >> >> #3339 wrote:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >>> In my first year at Uni, Esex 1969, the computer science chaps
>> >> >>> learnt Algol whereas we in the electronic engineering school did
>> >> >>> FORTRAN, but don't remember whether is was IV or 68.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> There was a FORTRAN IV, and a FORTRAN 77.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> There was an Algol 59, an Algol 60, and an Algol 68.
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't recall an Algol 59. I do recall an Algol 58.
>> >> 
>> >> There was an Algol W.  I think we know what (or who) the W stands
>> >> for.
>> >
>> > 	Algol W was the default teaching language at Cambridge when I
>> > was there, many thought the W stood for Wilkes.
>> >
>> >
>> I think it stood for Wirth who devolped it before going down the
>> Pascal/Modula route.
> 
> 	AFAIK it does.

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The football supporters' derisory chant? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-29 11:31 +0100
  Re: The football supporters' derisory chant? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-29 10:44 +0000
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        Re: The football supporters' derisory chant? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-29 14:53 +0100
          Re: The football supporters' derisory chant? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-29 15:51 +0000
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                Re: The football supporters' derisory chant? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-31 08:37 +0000
                Re: The football supporters' derisory chant? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-31 12:25 +0100
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