Subject: Re: What about alt.lang.focal?

From: jones@pyrite (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 20:34:27 GMT

>From article <[email-masked]>, by
[email-masked] (Magnus Olsson):
> Considering the amount of traffic on the wonderful [well... :-)] old
> programming lagnuage FOCAL on alt.sys.pdp8 and alt.folklore.computers,
> I'd like to propose a new newsgroup on the altnet:
> 
> alt.lang.focal.

While the traffic about FOCAL has been more than I ever expected to see,
it hasn't in any way interfered with the normal conduct of business in
alt.sys.pdp8, and I see no need to introduce another newsgroup for the
language.
					Doug Jones
					[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Dave Horsfall)
Date: 3 Nov 93 06:38:06 GMT

As one who used FOCAL many years ago, I would love to see it!  Let's
see who can create a self-replicating FOCAL program...

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)    VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC     PGP 2.3
[email-masked]           ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave    available

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From: [email-masked] (Crystobal J. Junta)
Date: 3 Nov 93 12:56:44 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Magnus Olsson) writes:
|> Considering the amount of traffic on the wonderful [well... :-)] old
|> programming lagnuage FOCAL on alt.sys.pdp8 and alt.folklore.computers,
|> I'd like to propose a new newsgroup on the altnet:
|> 
|> alt.lang.focal.
|> 

Yes!!!!!!!!!! Sure!!!!!!! Great idea!!!
I am all for it!!!