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... Luminous Horizon. It's been great. On to the post-comp polishing! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR------------------------------------------------------ From: Dave Leigh <dave.leigh SP@G gmail.com> In response to David Cornelson's editorial dated in Issue #38... I think David has thought out his target market well, but I'd like to make one important point: when you redefine your market, you should also redefine your terms. By all means, these works should be sold in bookstores, but they should never be c ...

... e headmaster. Earlier, they are on a see-saw and #2 says "Jackie shall have a new master". He keeps repeating "Jackie". This suggests that #6 is Jackie Drake, or John Drake. In the last episode, no one has commented on the three types of rebellion - #38 (Youth), #2 (Midlife crisis), and #6 (Individualist). The Butler is a follower, who serves the strongest. They are the only ones who escape, and they have to fight their way out. The meeting with #1 appears to be a trick to get #6 into the rocket - ...

File: News#387 STS NEWS # 3 July, 1987 Registry Update This edition of the STS Newsletter comes out in conjunction with our updated STS Registry. As you can see the Registry has grown a good deal since our inital version. It has also taken a good while to produce ...

... assembly, optimizing compilers or no optimizing compilers. (James has three letters in this issue, two of which arrived in the same envelope.) Uh, we hope you do not mind that we agree with your comments completely - FNE "Assembly vs. HLL: In issue #38, FNE put the issue where many of the readers have failed to find it. Namely, can operating systems or HLL be written in HLL? This excludes applications such as KEDIT which I am using to write this letter. KEDIT is written in PASCAL except for about ...

... hard to believe, but we get a significant amount of criticism because HALGOL is not designed for multiuser/multitasking environments! WE GET MAIL: [We are printing this letter even though our horsewhip wounds have not yet healed.] "On page 15 of #38 you ask the question "how do you edit a HALGOL program without line numbers?" The answer of course is "easily". What, you don't believe me? Shame on you! How then is it that I can edit my SC-Assembler source which has an internal structure much ...

... gy 286? Page 3, Column 1 RISC MACHINES: We have been assured by two readers (Bruce W. and Nick T.), using independent reasoning paths, that Dr. Tabak & colleague were almost certainly NOT deliberately 'sending up' the RISC concept (issue #38, p.2). So we apologize to Dr. Tabak and his colleague for (apparently) misrepresenting their views. However, we insist that our view of their papers as a REDUCTO AD ABSURDUM of the RISC concept is supportable, and we are NOT backing down from that v ...

... 15. You have cashed the check but now I seem to have stopped receiving copies of your newsletter. I'm used to receiving my copy on or near the first of the month and here it is, the 5th and no newsletter. My old subscription was good until issue #38. Is this the penalty for sending in my dough too soon? Please send me issue #35 as soon as possible and do what you can to put my name back on the subscriber list." Pierre M., Madison WI We have received letters from folk describing DTACK as their m ...

... name is well suited to structured programming? You can, if you wish, overlook the fact that we are including the possibility of using a (gasp!) GOTO. Oh, yes: our secretary, who is in charge of all checks around here, has signed you up through issue #38. And we probably will need a new Eagle keyboard by then. "Regarding your 'deploring' me for not photocopying your newsletter for my 'cohort(s)': I happen to work for this small, Fortune 20(00) outfit whose management is very sensitiv ...