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   On 31 Dec 2023 at 21:36:25 GMT, "Charlie Gibbs"    
   wrote:   
      
   >> My postgrad CS course was 1967/68 and we had a small (but ample) exposure to   
   >> Lisp, and also some flavour of Algol on the department's IBM 7094. There was   
   >> some clumsiness about using the Algol implementation that is now lost in the   
   >> mists of time - a character set limitation, perhaps.   
   >   
   > I remember that.  It had something to do with enclosing all keywords   
   > in apostrophes in place of the bold-faced type in the reference books.   
   > It was nasty both in appearance and typing.   
      
   Yes, yes !! That was it. Quite why we had to do that was a mystery.   
      
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   Tim   
      
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