Re: Extropians Mailing List - Approval Procedure

From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 09:17:07 MST


Spike wrote:

>Lets hope the gootluckenschvein works.

If not, then you can bite off its head. :-)

(Spike, it is *edible* ... I give you permission to eat it. Really!)

>ps Software types, was there not a poorly regarded computer
>language back in the 70s called algor?

Are you being funny? I can't tell. You need to put one of your silly
funny faces. I think that you mean Algol.

I thought it was a cool language. I never had an Algol compiler, but I
liked how the language appeared to work, when I saw an algol variable
time-step integrator (Bulirsch-Stoer) program in a math journal
publication. It looks like Pascal. I translated it to Pascal and then
again to Fortran ten years ago. I still use the routine occassionally.

Amara

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