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Re: why is the world full of idiots ?



On Monday, March 31, Marcus Watts wrote:
> 
> 	ITS -- the operating system *was* the debugger.
> 	UCSD P system -- the compiler had an OS and interpreter built in.
> 	Commodore PET -- came with Basic in ROM.
> 	Java -- fix all the problems with weak type checking and
> 		machine dependent logic.
> 	LISP -- lots of obscure incarnations.

Oberon... and now that we're completely off topic...

--Toby.